From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:58:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 17256 invoked from network); 21 Dec 1996 02:58:45 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 21 Dec 1996 02:58:45 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.B99451B8@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 3:58:44 +0100 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:56:40 -0500 Reply-To: Pycyn@AOL.COM Sender: Lojban list From: "John E. Clifford" Subject: Re: lojban imperfections? X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 615 Lines: 10 Message-ID: Or, if you don't like precisifying the usual word to suit your needs (and, hopefully, using a new word in Lojban), you can stop putting your begivens into a box and put them in a heap, with the clearly given in the center and the others toward the periphery, more so as less clearly given. That is, you can drop your Manichean yes/no classifcation and move to a fuzzy one. The book sounds about .7 given, to me (use .7, but claim it is a fuzzy number). Everybody agrees that you can do this in Lojban, though I am not at all sure that the exact way how to do it is as clear. Belknap must be away this week. >|83