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Re: [lojban-beginners] Why is CAhA a tense/modal?
On Thursday 21 April 2011 01:14:38 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Ideally, /every/ Lojban word should be defined in Lojban. And whenever a
> word /is/, that most certainly /is/ the canonical definition.
It's impossible to define every word in a language in the same language
without circularity. There must be some definitions which refer to things
outside the language. All words for species of organisms: "cinfo", for
instance, is defined as any organism of breed x2 which belongs to the species
Panthera leo, which is in turn defined by a type specimen.
Pierre
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La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.
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