Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:30:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801211830.NAA02762@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Rob Zook Sender: Lojban list From: Rob Zook Subject: Re: Summary so far on DJUNO X-To: LOJBAN@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <199801211634.IAA09840@gateway.informix.com> X-UIDL: 9937b6f0141afc586ead56313905e5d9 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 964 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Jan 21 14:14:10 1998 X-From-Space-Address: - At 04:33 PM 1/21/98 GMT+0, And Rosta wrote: >> >3. "Knowing", unlike the official place-structure of "djuno", has >> > no "epistemology" argument. [As John has pointed out, this is >> > not actually an epistemology argument but a metaphysics argument.] >> That depends on your definition of "metaphysics" - as I reported, >> epistemology is the subcategory of metaphysics dealingw ith how we know >> what we know. > >I know, and I gather that therefore most of us think "epistemology" >inappropriate as a label, preferring "metaphysics" = "model of the >world, of how the world is and works". I think we'll need a poll to justify that. Metaphysics seems to inclusive. Rob Z. -------------------------------------------------------- Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. -- Ben Franklin