From @uga.cc.uga.edu:lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Fri May 26 21:58:44 1995 Received: from punt.demon.co.uk by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA3110 ; Fri, 26 May 95 21:58:28 BST Received: from punt.demon.co.uk via puntmail for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk; Fri, 26 May 95 00:39:18 GMT Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by punt.demon.co.uk id aa09769; 26 May 95 1:38 +0100 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0773; Thu, 25 May 95 20:36:19 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5176; Thu, 25 May 1995 20:36:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 01:24:09 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: [forwarded message] X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Iain Alexander In-Reply-To: (Your message of Thu, 25 May 95 11:10:14 D.) Message-ID: <9505260138.aa09769@punt.demon.co.uk> Status: R 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