Re: xanka

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

la lojbab. cusku di'e

> Put more plainly perhaps, I have heard people referred to as being
> happy, with no implication that they were "happy about something".
> Whereas I cannot think of a situation where "anxious" did not imply
> "anxious about something".  There are philsophical positions that allow
> for or assume that happiness can be a default (and hence unconditional)
> state of mankind (people in general).  I have not heard of philosophies
> that assume that people in general are inherently anxious, without being
> anxious about something in particular.

Au contraire.  The German word "Angst" means "anxiety", but in philosophical
use (including in English, where it is a le'avla) it means precisely
"anxiety without an object, free-floating anxiety".  This might be described
as "le za'i xe'a catlu da poi bancu le xe'a janco", where "xe'a" is the
lambda variable.  This is an example, BTW, of lambda variables in event
abstractions.

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John Cowan                                              cowan@ccil.org
                        e'osai ko sarji la lojban.