From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:48:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 13634 invoked from network); 8 Apr 1997 00:19:10 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 8 Apr 1997 00:19:10 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.B4E24231@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 2:19:10 +0100 Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 15:29:12 -0700 Reply-To: Lee Daniel Crocker Sender: Lojban list From: Lee Daniel Crocker Organization: Piclab (http://www.piclab.com/) Subject: Re: Philosophy X-To: Lojban Group X-cc: lee@piclab.com To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199704072037.NAA21853@mail.calweb.com> from John Cowan at "Apr 7, 97 04:38:37 pm" Content-Length: 985 Lines: 20 Message-ID: > la xorxes. cusku di'e > > I think philosophy has to be a saske. [...] > > Any suggestions from the philosophers? Philosophy should be a seltadni--a field of study--but it is unique among them by being self-referential. I.e., it is the study of fields of study themselves, how they come about, what methods are used, etc. Philosophy is not a science, because it is what determines what is a science and what isn't. Philosophy is the study of questions that we don't even know how to study yet. So, analagous to "bantadni" (liguist/linguistics), I propose "tadnytadni", with the same structure (where x2 is a particular brand of linguistics or philosophy). Has kind of a ring to it. -- Lee Daniel Crocker "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC