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

[David Gowers <00ai99@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> Btw, that should be "lo du'u
se pelxu lo najnimre" or "lo du'u lo najnimre cu pelxu" autc. "pelxu" is
intransitive.

Whoops, yes. I originally had {lo du'u lo najnimre cu pelxu} and
changed it to make the sentence structure simpler.

> What about "lo du'u li re su'i re du li vo"?
Well, that's fair enough. Things that are true by definition are
completely true (ie. aren't subject to probability)

That's also relevant to what xorxes said:

> 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?  :)

I was wrong, because some predicates are true by definition or false
by definition. For instance, 0 aka 0% and 1 aka 100% being invalid
probability values is part of the current scientific definition of
probability. The aforementioned predicate is a member of the subset of
predicates which *do* have an absolute truth/falsehood value.

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