Return-Path: Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0reqp1-00001GC; Wed, 15 Feb 95 22:59 EET Received: from fiport.funet.fi (fiport.funet.fi [128.214.109.150]) by kantti.helsinki.fi (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id WAA03553 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 22:59:36 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (MAILER@SEARN) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V4.3-13 #2494) id <01HN3BPBE7C0000HFJ@FIPORT.FUNET.FI>; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 20:55:19 +0200 (EET) Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0350; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 21:56:02 +0100 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 08:44:04 -0800 From: Mark A Biggar Subject: Re: replies re. ka & mamta be ma Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: Mark A Biggar Message-id: <01HN3BPBGGC2000HFJ@FIPORT.FUNET.FI> X-Envelope-to: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 463 Lines: 13 >From: ucleaar >I'm suggesting that if there isn't a single primitive word for 1, >and if lg (iconically) models cognition, then such a lg implies >that 1 is not a basic concept. Furthermore, the sense of {le namcu >pe le solri} is not 1; it just happens to refer to 1. But I concede >that the sense of {namcu zei solri} could be 1. Not if your talking to an alien by radio in binary star solar system :-) -- Mark Biggar mab@wdl.loral.com