Re: [lojban] Defining lujvo

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

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 xavin@xavin.adhockery.net wrote:
> Is there a way to define a lujvo without refering to another language?
> More importantly, is there a way to define a gismu without falling back
> to another language?

-gua!spi strikes twice in one day :-)  See:
    http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi/cases.html
Look for "What Definitions Mean".  To summarize: a predicate "is" a
relation between its arguments, and is defined as a set (or class, if
infinite) of thus-related sets of arguments.  The textual exigesis is no
more than a learning aid.

Beware, the discussion is for -gua!spi, and a number of points differ from
official Loglan/Lojban.

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