Date:  Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:27:45 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>
Subject:      Re: Lojban ML: Syllogism and sophism
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To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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>But alas, on further thinking, I would interpret muvdu fapro as a force
opposing
>movement, such as friction.  muvdu jdari - understood as resistance to
movement
>would be inertia,

Inertia is resistance to change in movement rather than to movement
itself. (You have to fight inertia not only to get something moving, but
also
to get something to slow down.) So perhaps {muvdu cenba jdari}.

co'o mi'e xorxes