[lojban-beginners] Re: dimensions

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 4/29/06, c k <letsclimbhigher@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Maybe I have my dimensions screwed up, but I thought that they went like:
>
> 1 - point
> 2 - line
> 3 - plane
> 4 - cube
> 5 - time

A point has no dimensions, a line has one, a plane two, a cube three.
Time can be considered as a fourth dimension in space-time, along with
the three spatial dimensions (height, width and depth).

> But in le cmalu bo xunre cukta it starts with the second dimension?
>
> vi'i - line
> vi'a - plane
> vi'u - cube
> vi'e - time
>
> So I'm wondering why they did it like that.  For example vi'a is termed
> "2-space interval", so it's a little confusing when vi'a is referring to the
> 3rd dimension.

{vi'a} is not referring to the third dimension, it indicates that some interval
is two-dimensional.

Now, you could ask why isn't there a word to indicate that an event
is point-like, with no (relevant) spatial dimensions. That's a good
question, but maybe it doesn't matter much since these words don't
seem to be used very much anyway.

mu'o mi'e xorxes