From ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK Sat Mar 6 22:45:10 2010 Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 01:24:09 +0100 From: ucleaar Subject: Re: [forwarded message] To: Bob LeChevalier X-From-Space-Date: X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Message-ID: John: > la stivn. belnap. cusku di'e > > No ones skin is Platonic ideal blue, but is blue to a degree. Its seems > > artificial to specify that something is 89% blue. A fuzzy means of > > describing the degree of blueness would be most interesting. Has anyone > > thought about this? > That is supposed to be "le jei le skapi be ko'a cu blanu", the degree-of-truth> of someone's skin being blue. As far as "ni" goes, I'm as much at sea as > anyone. I suspected that, but was unsure. If truth is gradient, then is false a truth value of 0, and true a value of more than 0? I wonder whether {lo jei carmi gusni} is different from {lo ni carmi gusni}. Perhaps there is an upper limit on {lo jei c g} (e.g. a value of 1), but no upper limit on {lo ni carmi gusni} (allowing for infinite brightness). What do you reckon? --- And