From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:57:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 17683 invoked from network); 29 Jan 1997 18:06:25 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 29 Jan 1997 18:06:25 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.F9D7ADC7@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:06:20 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 13:01:02 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: _The Linguistics Wars_ To: jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Content-Length: 351 Lines: 14 Message-ID: > On the other hand, >the quick translation: > > la spiros smadi la ekslaks > >would be utterly sensless no matter what the context. Why? is it not possible to give a name to a "fact". Isn't that what we do with things like "Newton's Laws". Seems a very Lojbanic thing to do - to recognize abstractions as being a nameable "thing". lojbab