Re: antiblotation (was: RE: taksi)

[tk1@despammed.com]

[Robert LeChevalier:]

> Nora likes to treat all Lojban predicates as being verblike.  Thus your 
> question is better expressed: Is a taxicab sans passenger "taxicabbing" 
> now, and I don't think that it is.  Most likely, it is "once and future 
> taxicabbing" %^)

I looked up my NLP textbook (Jurafsky & Martin, "Speech and Language
Processing") to see how the ancients tackled this problem. Reportedly, the
solution was simply to avoid making too many role commitments, instead
tagging on roles via extra predicates as and when needed.

Personally, I have always seen predicates as types of assertions: a
predicate combined with arguments says something about a particular moment
of the world, frozen Matrix-style. Perhaps this is because I have always
been interested in true/false issues...

Thanks,
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