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

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx]

At 10:06 AM 2/23/99 +0800, Lin Zhemin wrote:
>From: Lin Zhemin <ljm@marx.ljm.wownet.net>
>la xorxes. cusku di'e
>> Lojban. A common example is "this sentence is false", if the sentence
>> is true, then it must be false, but if it is false, then it has to be true!
>> That's as easy to say in Lojban: {dei jitfa}, as in any other language.
>
>So why bother Bob wrote in the brochure the following paragraph?
>
> Lojban supports metalinguistic discussion about the sentences being
> spoken while remaining unambiguous. ("This sentence is not true" need
> not be a paradox in Lojban.)	(Line 189-191, Brochure)

Because in Lojban you can avoid the paradox with "sei dei jitfa"

lojbab