Re: [lojban] Lessons

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:15:26PM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2001 pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > In a message dated 5/23/2001 8:03:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
> > nicholas@uci.edu writes:
> >
> >
> > > My current thinking, btw, is that forethought
> > > connectives are not worth mentioning in an introductory course, as they
> > > are too infrequently used.
> > >
> > But they are so tidy and clear as opposed to the infix ("now negate the
> > sentence you just received") and so natural for "if"
> 
> 
> Nick, I hope you're teaching the newbies to use "va'o" for what they think
> "if, then" is, instead of "ganai, gi" or whatever the misleading
> formal-logic conditional is.

You might recall that not all of us agree that the formal-logic
conditional is misleading.

Those of you who felt that it was never seemed to be able to come up
with a clearer argument then, "Well, it just is.  So there.".

-Robin

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