Re: [lojban] Re: The Analytical Language of John Wilkins

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:17:45AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> These ambiguities, redundances, and deficiencies recall those
> attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia
> entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. On those remote
> pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that
> belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained,
> (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs,
> (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that
> tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn
> with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have
> just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a
> distance.[...]

I'd love to see primary source for this.

Whilst looking for it, I found a comparison between that list and the
DSM-III-R.  :-)

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~borth/MAJORITY.HTM

-Robin

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