From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:48:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 14547 invoked from network); 12 Apr 1997 05:16:08 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 12 Apr 1997 05:16:08 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <9.DAC12E62@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 7:16:07 +0100 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:57:20 -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 To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199704102224.PAA21441@mail.calweb.com> from Mark Vines at "Apr 10, 97 05:22:35 pm" Content-Length: 1025 Lines: 21 Message-ID: > You have persuaded me that philosophy is a {seltadni}, > a field of study. I vehemently deny the claim that > philosophy is a {saske}, a methodically cultivated > body of knowledge. And I am reluctant to accept any > lujvo, such as {tadnytadni}, that applies only to some > branches of philosophy and not to all. If there are multiple refents in our language of the word "Philosophy", wouldn't it be more in the spirit of Lojban (perhaps even required) to make separate words for them? I proposed "Tadnytadni" to mean "that thing we do in philosophy class." Perhaps the referent of "my philosophy on..." is something more like a belief, and the referent of "Eastern philosophy" is something more like "kamprijytoctadni". -- 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