From lojbab@access.digex.net Sat Mar 6 22:45:14 2010 Date: Sat May 20 01:28:29 1995 From: Bob LeChevalier To: topic@STUDENT.MATH.HR Subject: Re: Reflexivity X-From-Space-Date: Sat May 20 01:28:29 1995 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab@access.digex.net Message-ID: >Actually, SELF is a rather contraintuitive word for EGO. Originally self >means exactly what we would like it to mean: reflexivity. BUT, German >philosophers began using it for one's Ego (Selbst, if I am not >mistaken), and English just picked it up like many other things from >many other languages. So, the main and primary meaning of self is >reflexive, and if sevzi was intended to be used that way (which I >believe to be true) then it's definition is strongly misleading. I suggest that if you would like to propose a new, less misleading defintion that does not change the place structure, we could consider it. I suspect that EGO is (and should be) a lujvo of said word. lojbab Cc: lojban