From - Tue Apr 15 11:05:48 1997 Reply-To: Lee Daniel Crocker Date: Tue Apr 15 11:05:48 1997 Sender: Lojban list From: Lee Daniel Crocker Organization: Piclab (http://www.piclab.com/) Subject: Re: philosophy X-To: Lojban Group To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <199704102224.PAA21441@mail.calweb.com> from Mark Vines at "Apr 10, 97 05:22:35 pm" X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1050 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