Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 23:39:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801130439.XAA06936@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Steven Belknap Sender: Lojban list From: Steven Belknap Subject: knowledge and belief X-To: LOJBAN@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-UIDL: d0959e29356702e4a1be58659e0795c8 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 737 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Jan 13 10:34:28 1998 X-From-Space-Address: - lojbab: >While it might be nice to include all 4 of Steve's suggestions in the >x4 definition, we are limited by the fixed length of the definition space. >In general, where we had multiple words for oblique places, they were stuck >into the space beyond column 160, which is where the note about words usable >for epistemology is located. Why are we still stuck with this infernal 160 limit on entry size for definition space? Sounds like an unncessary software technology constraint to me. I'm a big fan of terseness, but to define "knowledge" in 160 characters seems rather beyond the pale. -Steven Steven Belknap, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria