Re: [lojban] Re: Nick will be with you shortly

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Jordan DeLong scripsit:

> > > There is no problem with loi.
> > 
> > Since more than one competent lojbanist disagrees with you, you are
> > prima facia wrong, even if all your points are correct.
> 
> Huh?  This is a fallacy (argumentum ad populum).  Statements have
> a particular truth value regardless of what we believe about them.

Unless the statements are about beliefs, as this one is.  You said in
effect that the use of "loi" was uncontroversial; since other people say
it is controversial, it *is* controversial.

-- 
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_