Re: [lojban] Re: lujvo

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> I would have read "lo
> [dragon] klama" as ipmyling something like "Some dragons, oh, by the
> way, dragons really exist, go", which is apparently wrong.  So I take it
> all back.  :)

The problem with that is the notion "really exist".   As Ray Smullyan says,
you can no more examine a chair and tell if it is "real" than you can examine
a window and tell if it is going to be broken in a few hours.  Reality is
the dream-state we don't wake up from (except perhaps when we are dead,
who knows).

But yes, predicating something about dragons implicitly asserts that there
are dragons to predicate about.

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