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OK, I did a little digging, and the categories are based on the paragraph
numbers in the standard Roget's thesaurus.  A 1911 edition of this is
apparently available via Project Gutenburg on the net.  I did a quick
extract of the major outline sections that should coorespond to the
first couple of digits of the code:

CLASS I
WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS
SECTION I. EXISTENCE
SECTION II. RELATION
SECTION III. Q U A N T I T Y
SECTION IV. ORDER
SECTION V. NUMBER
SECTION VI. TIME
SECTION VII. CHANGE
SECTION VIII. CAUSATION
CLASS II
WORDS RELATING TO SPACE
SECTION I.  S P A C E   I N   G E N E R A L
SECTION II.  D I M E N S I O N S
Section III. FORM
Section IV. MOTION
CLASS III
Words Relating to MATTER
Section 1.  MATTER IN GENERAL
Section II. INORGANIC MATTER
SECTION III. ORGANIC MATTER
CLASS IV
WORDS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES
DIVISION (I) FORMATION OF IDEAS
Section I. OPERATIONS OF INTELLECT IN GENERAL
Section II. PRECURSORY CONDITIONS AND OPERATIONS
Section Ill. MATERIALS FOR REASONING
Section IV. REASONING PROCESSES
Section V. RESULTS OF REASONING
SECTION VI  EXTENSION OF THOUGHT
SECTION VII.  CREATIVE THOUGHT
DIVISION (II) COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS
SECTION I. NATURE OF IDEAS COMMUNICATED.
SECTION II.  MODES OF COMMUNICATION
Section III.  MEANS OF COMMUNICATING IDEAS
CLASS V
WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS1
Division (1) INDIVIDUAL VOLITION
Section I. VOLITION IN GENERAL
Section II. Prospective Volition1
Section Ill. VOLUNTARY ACTION
Section IV.  ANTAGONISM
Section V.  RESULTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION
DIVISION (II) I N T E R S O C I A L  V O L I T I O N
SECTION I.  GENERAL INTERSOCIAL VOLITION
Section II.  SPECIAL INTERSOCIAL VOLITION
Section III.  CONDITIONAL INTERSOCIAL VOLITION
Section IV.  POSSESSIVE RELATIONS
Class VI
Words relating to the Sentiment and Moral Powers
Section I.  Affections in General
Section II Personal Affections
SECTION III. SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
SECTION IV.  MORAL  AFFECTIONS
SECTION V.  RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS

Please pardon if this isn't pretty.


Now it turns out that Cowan did another pass at the thesaurus in 1993
attaempting to update it, and this time used the paragraph numbers.
This apprently has not made it onto our Web site directly.  However
you will find it on the site in the Lojban List archives (I hope).
There should be 4 messages dated (approximately) 21 Feb 1993.
Sorry that should be 1992.  The text is over 70K and I don't have a clean
uploadable copy at the moment, or I would just repost it.  Perhaps John can
find and extract his copy more easily and put it on the ftp site, where it
will thence end up accessable via the Web.

Note also that Veijo Vilva, who hosts the Web site, in effect created a
thesaurus of sorts by his cross-referencing, which is still maintained in
an updated form in the official gismuy list.  I would suspect that Veijo
has his database used in the crossreferencing somewhere on the Web site.

Hope this helps.

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