From araizen@newmail.net Wed Oct 16 15:30:53 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:30:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mxout3.netvision.net.il ([194.90.9.24]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 181wgi-0003tF-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:30:48 -0700 Received: from default ([62.0.145.34]) by mxout3.netvision.net.il (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 0.8 (built Jul 12 2002)) with SMTP id <0H4300LM0IADWM@mxout3.netvision.net.il> for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:25:28 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:19:20 +0200 From: Adam Raizen Subject: [lojban] Re: brivla for 'intend' To: lojban-list@lojban.org Message-id: <05e501c27562$e53cb140$2291003e@default> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: X-archive-position: 2220 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: araizen@newmail.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list la .and. cusku di'e > What is the best brivla for "x intends that p, x intends to p", given that > intention does not entail action (or deliberate inaction) and that, ba'e ti'e, > intention is a psychological primitive (i.e. doesn't reduce to a complex of > other notions)? I have used 'platu' for 'intend', though now looking at the gimste, 'platu' might be a bit different from 'intend', but I'm not sure. In any case, I think that design can be said in other ways, so it might be useful to use 'platu' for intend. mu'o mi'e .adam.