Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 19:12:16 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710250012.TAA14280@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Sender: Lojban list From: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Subject: Re: The design of Lojban X-To: lojban To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 954 Lines: 23 la ed mi spuda di'e >> I don't agree that you can have >>{le nu broda cu prenu} = "the event of brodaing is a person" > >In English, a corporation is a legal person different from all the people >and things that make it up, defined by the relation among those people and >things in the act of incorporation et seq. Does this qualify? Not in my view. A corporation may be a prenu, that's a matter for lojbo lawyers to decide, but it isn't an event. {i xu lo kagni cu prenu i mi na djuno i xu lo kagni cu fasnu i pe'i na go'i} >>or {lo prenu cu fasnu} = "some person happens". > >I think this is possible in some science fiction contexts, especially in >the "many worlds" ontology sometimes proposed for quantum mechanics. In >fact, I remember several episodes of Star Trek and of course Dr. Who which >seem to call for such statements. What would it mean? In what context would you say that a person occurs? co'o mi'e xorxes