[lojban] Re: Founders: ja'o and ni'ikri

[jordi mas <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

> I think it dates back to the days before the
> krici/jinvi distinction was
> clearly understood.  In any event, the definition of
> "krici" as believing
> without evidence/proof is probably too strong: it
> should be more like
> believing with or without evidence/proof.

I really can't see why it is probably too
strong. Believing without proof is something
we human beings do all the time. Not a week
ago, when somebody showed me a photograph
of a double sun halo they had taken during a religious
festival, I was ridiculed because I expressed my
belief that such phenomena are
caused by the refraction and reflexion of
sunlight through hexagonal prisms of ice.
At the moment I did not produce any
acceptable proof, so I left it at that.

OTOH, hurdening oneself with proofs for
each one of one's own opinions would be
really too strong. 

--jordi


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