Return-Path: <@SEGATE.SUNET.SE:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0sORF8-0000YjC; Wed, 21 Jun 95 17:59 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 88BCCC44 ; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 16:43:00 +0200 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 10:02:33 -0400 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: xanka X-To: Lojban List To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199506210746.DAA09078@locke.ccil.org> from "Logical Language Group" at Jun 21, 95 03:44:50 am Content-Length: 1077 Lines: 21 la lojbab. cusku di'e > Put more plainly perhaps, I have heard people referred to as being > happy, with no implication that they were "happy about something". > Whereas I cannot think of a situation where "anxious" did not imply > "anxious about something". There are philsophical positions that allow > for or assume that happiness can be a default (and hence unconditional) > state of mankind (people in general). I have not heard of philosophies > that assume that people in general are inherently anxious, without being > anxious about something in particular. Au contraire. The German word "Angst" means "anxiety", but in philosophical use (including in English, where it is a le'avla) it means precisely "anxiety without an object, free-floating anxiety". This might be described as "le za'i xe'a catlu da poi bancu le xe'a janco", where "xe'a" is the lambda variable. This is an example, BTW, of lambda variables in event abstractions. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.