[lojban] Re: X1 is X2 by definition.

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:38:03PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 4/15/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > Please not that defining gismu in Lojban is Hard, because Lojban
> > tends not to have many words for the same concept, so some
> > concepts must be taken as given, and those are generally the
> > gismu.
> 
> Yes, but also it is hard because talking about definitions and
> meanings in Lojban is hard. It is not even clear how to talk about
> a meaning, as you hint below.
>  
> > My Way:
> > 
> > zo prami se smuni di'e .i xy pi pa ke mutce cinmo nelci xy pi re
> > gi'e djica lo nu di'i kansa xy pi re
> > 
> > Or something like that.  You could put the second half in the x2
> > of se smuni, but it'd be a pain.
> 
> {di'e} is a text, so if you wanted a text there you could have
> used {lu ... li'u}.  But I don't think a text is a meaning. 
> 
> Maybe you meant {la'e di'e}. 

More that, yes.

> Then you could have used {lo du'u ...} or {lo nu ...} (I think
> {la'e di'e} is ambiguous between those two.) But it is not clear
> that the meaning of {prami} could be an event or a fact either.

lo ka, then.

> I think what we want to say is something like:
> 
> {lo ka ce'u xi pa prami ce'u xi re cu mintu lo ka ce'u xi pa mutce
> cinmo nelci ce'u xi re li'o kei lo -definition} "the two-place
> relationship 'x1 loves x2' is the same as the two-place
> relationship 'x1 intensely feels fondness for x2 etc.' by
> definition".

Bah.  Any Lojban word definition that has to say "by definition" has
made an error.

zo prami cu valsi lo ka ce'u xi pa mutce cinmo nelci ce'u xi re

-Robin

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