From pycyn@aol.com Mon Aug 21 08:00:06 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4815 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2000 15:00:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 21 Aug 2000 15:00:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r19.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.73) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Aug 2000 15:00:04 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r19.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.12.) id a.a1.9a4675f (4237) for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:59:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:59:54 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Expressing in Lojban concepts there aren't gismu for To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 3976 In a message dated 00-08-21 05:07:23 EDT, zon9 writes: << Incidentally, I haven't seen any Lojban word for "philosophy" anywhere either, so how can you express this in Lojban?>> To reenforce what Lojbab says, even (maybe, especially) philosophers cannot agree on what they are doing, to the point that some people in the group are sure that others who say they are in the group are clearly not, but in some other field altogether (currently psychology or linguistics or mathematics, formerly theology or physics or botany, and so on). I am a "analusis of concepts, criticism of beliefs, consttruction of conceptual theories" man myself, but that makes it hard for me to deal with, say, existentialists -- and would be a bitch of a lujvo.