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Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: questions about lojban



On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 04:38:42PM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:33 PM, v4hn <me@v4hn.de> wrote:
> > It is neither and you're "argument", that is to say you're opinion,
> > isn't any stronger.
> 
> *your

.ua .e'enai je'e .i mi mutce tatpi ca le cabdei vau za'a

> And it's not an opinion. It's an analogy,

So is the object analogy.

> as predicate logic and functional
> programming are very similar in this regard: they both are composed of
> functions which take a number of arguments.

Good thing lojban is not predicate logic then, right?
Ever tried to say "coi" in first order logic?

The perspective you describe is just that: a perspective.
I like it, but still you shouldn't walk around telling people
with different perspectives they got it all wrong.

Looking at "p(a)" people see vastly different things:
- A function/functor application mapping an element a to
  a truth value
- A property of an object a which might be part of
  a large taxonomy of objects that might have that property
- A node in some semantic ontology
- A plain and simple statement
- ...

Not to speak of different philosophical perspectives on propositions.

None of these are wrong. Maybe some are "better" for you,
but that might be due to your use cases.

> > Did I mention that these comparisons pe'i
> > are all invalid and irrational?

.i mi ckakla .i a'o do se xamgu

mi'e la .van. mu'o

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