Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:16:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712082116.QAA21374@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com Sender: Lojban list From: bob@MEGALITH.RATTLESNAKE.COM Subject: Re: truthvalues (was Re: ni, jei, perfectionism) X-To: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <5B92611E5@mail-gw.uclan.ac.uk> (message from And Rosta on Mon, 8 Dec 1997 14:26:19 GMT+0) X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 690 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Dec 8 16:16:42 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU I don't want to start a long thread on this ... but I do think your mathematician is stretching things a bit. Consider the scale of hue. If green is value on that scale, it would follow that green is a number. ... Right! You don't have to, but it helps to think of a scale as consisting of numbers of a certain type. It makes the universe feel more warmly logical rather than coldly irrational. I am especially taken by Guttman scales as explicating how we perceive. (We discussed this in the Fall of 1995.) -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com P. O. Box 693 bob@ai.mit.edu Stockbridge, MA 01262-0693 USA (413) 298-4725