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Re: [lojban] Better "hardliner" definition (was: A revised ce'u proposal invo...



In a message dated 9/12/2001 10:36:47 PM Central Daylight Time,
xod@sixgirls.org writes:


Why did JCB choose to bother developing a Logical Language in order to
test SW? We feel the effects of the contradiction between these two goals.


Actually, he picked first order logic as the basis of his language because he
thought (he could be pretty unobservant at times) that it was as metaphysics
free as a language could be.  That is, for him the two goals went together
(he had a limited view of what "logical language" meant).