Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban]

[xod <xod@bway.net>]

On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Lin Zhemin wrote:

> From: Lin Zhemin <ljm@marx.ljm.wownet.net>
> 
> Sat, 20 Feb 1999, zo Robin Turner(robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR) cusku di'e

> > Also, as recent postings indicate, ther'es nothing to stop
> > Lojban incorporating different logics, not just the "Greek" style. If Lojban were simply an
> > attempt to put language into an Aristotelean straightjacket, I for one would never bother to
> > learn it.
> 
> I'm afraid that you may be wrong here. Since Lojban is firstly defined to
> test the Sapir-Wholf theory, let's assume it be true first. Since Lojban is
> based in predicate logic, it derives all limitation and implicities of it;
> thus Lojbanists' way of thinking are limited by the logic. And the logic,

Can you give me an example of a statement which can be made in some other
language (English, I hope) but not in Lojban, because Lojban is based in
predicate logic, but English isn't?


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