From @uga.cc.uga.edu:lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Wed Jun 21 23:28:09 1995 Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA3521 ; Wed, 21 Jun 95 23:28:07 BST Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk via puntmail for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk; Wed, 21 Jun 95 14:06:03 GMT Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by punt2.demon.co.uk id aa01898; 21 Jun 95 15:05 +0100 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1328; Wed, 21 Jun 95 10:03:43 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 6322; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 10:01:53 -0400 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: Iain Alexander In-Reply-To: <199506210746.DAA09078@locke.ccil.org> from "Logical Language Group" at Jun 21, 95 03:44:50 am Message-ID: <9506211505.aa01898@punt2.demon.co.uk> Status: R 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.