From @gate.demon.co.uk,@uga.cc.uga.edu:lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Thu Jun 22 23:29:58 1995 Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA3560 ; Thu, 22 Jun 95 23:29:56 BST Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk via puntmail for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk; Thu, 22 Jun 95 16:33:48 GMT Received: from gate.demon.co.uk by punt2.demon.co.uk id aa02954; 22 Jun 95 17:32 +0100 Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by gate.demon.co.uk id aa07287; 22 Jun 95 17:32 GMT-60:00 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7365; Thu, 22 Jun 95 12:28:08 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0945; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 12:23:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 12:23:51 -0400 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Theology (was Re: Trobriand Island masses) To: Lojban List In-Reply-To: <199506220746.DAA16669@locke.ccil.org> from "jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU" at Jun 21, 95 06:21:51 pm Message-ID: <9506221732.aa07287@gate.demon.co.uk> Status: R la lojbab. cusku di'e > > Hmmm. Except for the Lord's Prayer and a chunk of > > Genesis, we don't have much theological text in Lojban. It would be a > > worthy addition to the corpus, and then someone can tackle Aquinas (xo > > {angels} ka'e dansu cpana lo pijne jipno). la xorxes. cusku di'e > The angels are another good example. The lujvo list gives {notcrida} for > angel, then: > > lei xo notcrida ka'e dansu cpana lo pijne jipno > The mass of how many angels can dance on a pin's head? > > It wouldn't be of interest to ask {xo le notcrida}, (how many of the > angels) can each dance there, probably all of them can. The question > of theological interest is how many can do it together, so we have > to use masses. Another way of putting the question might be > {le notcrida xomei}, which is also a mass of angels. The real theological question, though, is: lu'i ro lo notcrida poi cabna dansu cpana lo pijne jipno cu cimni ?gi'i nalcimni The-set-of all angels which simultaneously dance upon a pin head is infinite or finite? In other words: xu lo notcrida fasnu Is it true that an angel is an event in space-time? (modern version) Is it true that angels are substances? (Scholastic version) -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.