Re: [lojban] Re: lujvo

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

John Cowan writes:
>On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>
>>   If I read "lo <foo>" where foo translates to "the mother of
>> God", I'm going to be pissed.  It assumes that there is an objectively
>> observable God _and_ that said God has a mother _and_ that it's the God
>> you're talking about.
>
>Not at all.  Since "lo <foo>" is the same as "da poi <foo>", it simply
>means that the speaker is asserting that something is a mother of God
>along with whatever the bridi asserts.  From your point of view,
>statements about the mother of God are like statements about purple
>rhinoceroses: uncontroversially false.  

Not really, but this isn't the place to explain my semi-humanist
religious POV.  :)

>But there is no *assumption* here.

Ah.  Point taken, objection withdrawn.

-Robin, who reserves the right to laugh, though.

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