Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ImOei-0001hS-0S for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:24 -0700 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.234]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ImOef-0001h5-PK for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:23 -0700 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1080829nze for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=R8UEt0foPu9dZH2oHo7fGT92XGDjJhmj9yo0y3SxLlk=; b=KJbEu+HD6UIhveO3RIcMv1/hlqH1doGT49W8dXgarS81vsCwaiulfsDMNl8KsApVRYCjRtCKNQfKcD/Jnd0n72g8LIL9GgdW3aT26YkDLCeAJw0AlQbkPjoBiQBfjmcVTITl/XRRhxQVqE4lYb0BxfFTnT30AErWocPpqOlNcSU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CWaGNgRRlYLbykU/2/0XAzxi1JmGdCjRtVQvqt3Va0RmEHmr6hceunLbmvUKvmC4QJSGR0sfKE7gzljJB/d5zs+Y2moTwrWMRqsRW+AdIh+PA8dfX4FWKZ5A39zrptSS3yE156e00mALAFJW/NBG303qW+hb2WcUcH2aeOpZ4A0= Received: by 10.142.109.16 with SMTP id h16mr1193520wfc.1193641396850; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.107.8 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <975a94850710290003k734686f8j52ac27e4bcaa04f2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:03:16 -0700 From: "Joel Shellman" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Quick Reference Guide for language words In-Reply-To: <925d17560710281448v254c2f2bxceebd686b8b9e334@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <975a94850710270735t210f5212s8d39dd0003c08578@mail.gmail.com> <975a94850710271658m5bdfbb23y7a0c7b271ad5acba@mail.gmail.com> <200710281120.42422.phma@phma.optus.nu> <925d17560710281448v254c2f2bxceebd686b8b9e334@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5729 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jshellman@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 520 On 10/28/07, Jorge Llambías wrote: > In logic terms, a bridi is a _proposition_, the predicate is the selbri. > For example, here is a dictionary defintion of "predicate": > > (Logic) That part of a proposition that is affirmed or denied about the > subject. For example, in the proposition "We are mortal", "mortal" is > the predicate. > > But as is often the case, the Lojban terminology is a bit muddled. Thank you, that makes more sense to me. bridi = proposition, selbri = predicate