[lojban] Re: [OT] God Syndrome (OR: The why of 'why')

[Jim Carter <jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU>]

I think the question being asked is, how in Lojban do you express "why does
'X does Y for reason Z'"; in other words, we're not here to answer the
question, but rather, to ask it in a way that others can understand what
we're asking.  No, I'm not going to try for a Lojban answer.

The definitions of causal sentence connectives are very slippery and need
to be nailed down carefully.  For -gua!spi I've posted a discussion:
    http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi/vocab2.html
Search for the 2nd occurrence of "reason".  To summarize, Z (the reason) is
a consequence of action Y, and the hoped-for achievement of Z is what
motivates X to do Y.  So, what are the contingencies in X's programming
that make Z sufficiently attractive to get X off his/her butt?  (Nature?
Nurture?  Original sin?  Now we're getting OT^2 :-)

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