From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed May 19 11:28:23 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 79036 invoked from network); 19 May 2004 18:28:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m21.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 19 May 2004 18:28:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.36) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 May 2004 18:28:23 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA22819 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 14:21:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 19 May 2004 14:27:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:27:57 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20040519182757.GB12492@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <20040519173651.GH6978@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040519175718.99973.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040519175718.99973.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 65.246.141.36 From: jcowan@reutershealth.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: The Analytical Language of John Wilkins X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22393 Jorge Llamb?as scripsit: > > I'd love to see primary source for this. > > Coming from Borges, it is perfectly possible that he is the > primary source. Half of the time his references are ficticious. It is not only probable, it is damn near certain. Or do you mean that you want to see Borges's original Spanish text? Borges did not make up Wilkins or his classification, however; only Kuhn and the encyclopedia. -- But that, he realized, was a foolish John Cowan thought; as no one knew better than he jcowan@reutershealth.com that the Wall had no other side. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --Arthur C. Clarke, "The Wall of Darkness"