Re: [lojban-beginners] About {mi cu facki di'e}

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:11 PM, David Gowers <00ai99@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/4/19 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>>
>> The referent of a sentence is the proposition that that sentence expresses.
>
> == a single particle containing the actual meaning of the bridi,
> rather than it's literal content, then?

What do you mean by "a single particle"? "la'e di'e"?

"di'e" refers to the following sentence (i.e. the text), the thing
that, for example, has a certain number of words.
"la'e di'e" refers to the meaning of the following sentence (i.e. the
proposition that the text expresses), the thing that can be true or
false.

>> A du'u predicate could be 100% false. "lo du'u lo mluni cu
>
> No predicate can be 100% false or true, because we can never have
> enough data to reach 100% certainty, only a maximum of N/(N+1)
> certainty where N is the number of data points so far (which
> presumably all were perfectly predicted).

OK, but in that case, my statement that a du'u could be 100% false is
as close to the truth, or at least no further from the truth, than
your own statement that no predicate can be 100% false or true. You
can never have enough data to reach 100% certainty that no predicate
can be 100% false or true, right?  :)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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