From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Fri Jul 27 08:06:11 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 27 Jul 2001 15:06:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 65394 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2001 15:04:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 27 Jul 2001 15:04:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay3-gui.server.ntli.net) (194.168.4.200) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Jul 2001 15:04:56 -0000 Received: from m373-mp1-cvx1b.bir.ntl.com ([62.255.41.117] helo=andrew) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with smtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15Q8vR-0005Iu-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:49:14 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] how can i help lojban? what can $ do? Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:04:08 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 8959 > From: Jay Kominek [mailto:jay.kominek@colorado.edu] > Sent: 21 July 2001 18:22 > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, And Rosta wrote: > > > Tanru are vague, not ambiguous in the technical linguistic sense. > > Ambiguity involves a small number of clear and clearly distinct > > alternatives. Lojban does in fact strive to avoid semantic > > ambiguity. (e.g. brivla always have same place structure; logical > > ambiguities are avoided.) > > Whats the difference between 'vague', and 'ambiguous'? Ambiguity involves a small number of clear and clearly distinct alternatives. Vagueness involves an indeterminate and indefinitely large number of not clearly distinct alternatives. -And.