| In a message dated 3/30/2001 7:23:49 AM Central Standard Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes: Right, but how does calling those statements "mistakenly true" It looks to me that this discussion glides too readily over the point that truth -- in lojban -- is also relative to a belief system (much better than "epistemology", but still not quite right). Discussion between Maoist and Trotskyites (I had an officemate once who was Socialist Workers and so ahd the fights in his own head) eventually come down to fights between whole belief systems, which channge too slowly for political effectiveness, whence purges. "Mistakenly true" is actually rather nice -- true, but on a totally muddled epistemology; not possible in English, at least so clearly. |