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Re: [lojban] coi rodo - mi'e .aulun.
la pycyn cusku di'e
An interesting analysis and one that is possible for Chuang but does not
make
much fun of Hui.
Well, Hui falls in all the traps that Chuang sets up for him,
so we shouldn't make fun.
I would take it -- on the basis of this English, anyhow --
that Chuang's win comes from his point that the original question was "HOW
do
you know?" and that that question only makes sense when it is agreed that
"you" DO know.
Yes, but if Hui had asked {ju'apei} in Lojban, i.e.
"what evidential are you using?" then he would not
be agreeing that Chuang knows. But in that case, Chuang's
answer would be overtly evasive, at least until he
finally responds {se'o}, "I know internally".
If they had been speaking Lojban instead of Chinese
we would have been spared the parallelism stuff.
Is it a strange claim that you have to be a just like another
person to really know what they think/feel? Chuang seems to accept it --
indeed insist on it -- but it is not a win for him, only a draw.
I think the more credible claim is that the more you
are like another, the closer you will be to "knowing"
what they think/feel. But they seem to deal in black
and white, ignoring the different distances that might
exist between Chuang and the fish and between Hui and
Chuang.
co'o mi'e xorxes
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