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Re: [lojban] Whorf Hypothesis in Scientific American



In a message dated 3/27/2002 3:23:55 PM Central Standard Time, rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org writes:


By 'loony' you mean 'clinically insane'?

At a (reasonable) guess, something more like "harboring a belief web featuring a number of claims very different from the ones I accept and that I think are not amenable to scientific verification, but that strongly affect his behavior and methodolgy and subsequent beliefs"  E.g. most crack-pots.