Re: [lojban] Re: Mass Lojban Conversion

["Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

On 1/2/07, M@ <matthew.dunlap@gmail.com> wrote:
> Plus, the phrase "know precisely
> what you're thinking about" seems redundant, it's never the case that I
> don't know what I'm thinking about.

I disagree. One of the most serious problems with critical thinking
skills is the failure to have operating definitions for one's terms.
It is difficult to answer a question if I don't know the meaning of
the words used in the question. Then I literally don't know what I'm
asking, which means "I don't know what I'm talking about" is true in
the literal sense of that phrase.

Ambiguity has its place, but is also out of place in a critical
thinking context. Hitting a target, it helps for it to hold more or
less still while you do so. A certain amount of ambiguity is
inevitable, but it helps to limit it within what I might refer to,
without stretching my metaphor too far, as a strike zone.

-Matt