Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:49:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801261549.KAA23864@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: And Rosta Sender: Lojban list From: And Rosta Organization: University of Central Lancashire Subject: Re: Summary so far on DJUNO X-To: LOJBAN@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-UIDL: e87257f87afe3213919209f3ac872d62 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 792 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Jan 26 12:49:47 1998 X-From-Space-Address: - > >My personal point of view is that the use of every word involves > >some metaphysics behind it, and there is nothing particularly > >special about {fatci} in that respect. We might as well argue why > >{blanu} or {remna} or {sfofa} don't have a metaphysics place as > >well. Are those words totally useless too? > > They potentially have such a place - there is a BAI tag for the x4 of > djuno. I've just finished writing a message where I thought I was agreeing with you that DJUNO x4 is an epistemology place rather than a metaphysics place! At any rate, BAI tags alter the definition of the selbri. The question remains, is vanilla {sfofa} useless? If it needs to be redefined by a BAI for it to become useful, then it should have had an extra sumti place to start off with... --And