Re: Anything but tautologies (was: Re: [jboske] Re: [lojban] tautologies

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Jorge Llambias scripsit:

> In mathematics it is fairly common to use the same notation, "f(x)",
> both for a function and for the value that the function takes on
> for a given value of the domain. There is no need to replicate this
> in Lojban.

Hence the use of lambdas. lambda(x) f(x) is a function, f(x) is a
value (given that x is bound).

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