From sentto-44114-3029-960854924-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Tue Jun 13 00:06:14 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 16967 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2000 00:06:12 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 13 Jun 2000 00:06:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 2295 invoked by uid 40001); 13 Jun 2000 00:08:50 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 2292 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2000 00:08:49 -0000 Received: from mk.egroups.com (207.138.41.165) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 13 Jun 2000 00:08:49 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-3029-960854924-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.35] by mk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 13 Jun 2000 00:08:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 17259 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2000 00:08:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 13 Jun 2000 00:08:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Jun 2000 00:08:43 -0000 Received: from calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA19827 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:09:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200006130009.UAA19827@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: lojban@egroups.com In-Reply-To: Message from John Cowan of "Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:35:00 EDT." X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:09:02 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: lujvo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Cowan writes: >On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >> If I read "lo " where foo translates to "the mother of >> God", I'm going to be pissed. It assumes that there is an objectively >> observable God _and_ that said God has a mother _and_ that it's the God >> you're talking about. > >Not at all. Since "lo " is the same as "da poi ", it simply >means that the speaker is asserting that something is a mother of God >along with whatever the bridi asserts. From your point of view, >statements about the mother of God are like statements about purple >rhinoceroses: uncontroversially false. Not really, but this isn't the place to explain my semi-humanist religious POV. :) >But there is no *assumption* here. Ah. Point taken, objection withdrawn. -Robin, who reserves the right to laugh, though. -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. ... stripped of our uniqueness as human beings by Darwin, exposed to our own inadequacies by Freud, ... Power -- "the ability to bring about our desires" -- is all that we have left. --- Michael Korda, _Power!_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Never lose a file again. Protect yourself from accidental deletes, overwrites, and viruses with @Backup. Try @Backup it's easy, it's safe, and it's FREE! Click here to receive 300 MyPoints just for trying @Backup. http://click.egroups.com/1/4936/3/_/17627/_/960854896/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com