[lojban-beginners] Re: How versatile is "nu"?

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

Incidentally, I don't quite understand why "truth value" shouldn't come up in conversation once you're using a short term like {jei}, which is considerably less cumbersome and IMO more straightforward than the alternative, especially in a language which has part of its basis in classical logic.

mu'omi'e .latros.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM, chris kerr <letsclimbhigher@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, is having {jei} redundant in this sense? Is there ever a
> time when you need "the truth value of" and "whether" won't do?
>

 Of course there is.  Consider, for example, all those Smullyanesque
logic puzzles, where the answer is something like, "If I were to ask
you if the truth value of your answer is the same as the truth value
of "The dragon behind the second door?", what would you say?"

       --gejyspa