Re: [lojban] Can an atheist really understand religious text?

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/15/2002 9:41:43 AM Central Standard Time, xod@sixgirls.org writes:

The Sapir-Whorf implications of this article should be so glaringly
obvious that I should not have to explain why I forwarded this.

I don't see the Sapir-Whorf implications, since I don't see any contact with questions of language at all, let alone syntax. This eems to be about pretty standard web-of-belief problems a la Quine ("the indeterminacy of translation" being the nearest point of that field to S-W).  It also seems to me that Bar-Elli's point is so trivial that I can't quite appreciate the opponents'.