From: John Cowan <cowan>
Message-Id: <199801121535.KAA02207@locke.ccil.org>
Subject: Re: knowledge and belief
To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:35:37 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199801120323.WAA17107@locke.ccil.org> from "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" at Jan 12, 98 00:10:57 am
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> There seems to be some confusion as to what is an
> epistemology. In some examples, it seems to be taken
> as the way by which something gets to be known.

That is the standard meaning.

> In other cases it is the theory or lore within which
> something is a fact. For example:

In those cases (djuno, jetnu, etc.) it should really be
called a "metaphysics".   (BTW, what is the plural of
"metaphysics"?)

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.