Re: sumti categories

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

JL> la lojbab (to noi fasnu ianai toi) cusku di'e
JL>
JL> > NO! I mean that I, the person AM an event. When you respond to me, you ar
JL> > responding to me as a person as well as to me as an event.
JL>
JL> But responding to you as a person means that I'm responding to something
JL> you said or did. Responding to you as an event, means that I'm responding
JL> to you happening, whatever that means. (From what you say, "I happen"
JL> means something like "I began to exist, am existing, and will cease to
JL> exist".) Which of those two meanings is expressed by {mi spuda do}?

The latter.  Or at least, if you are responding to something I said or did,
it is only within the context of that saying/doing being a manifestation
of MY existence.  I guess I may be saying that "mi" as an event is an
alternative to "lenu mi fasnu", which in turn is usuallyy pragmatically the
same as "lenu mi zasti".

JL> > Thus (waxing
JL> > philosophically), Lojban expresses nicely the idea of "two lives intersec
JL> > as the events which are those lives interact.

JL> Could you show how?

Well, if I am an event, then certainly you are an event as well.  When our
lives intersect (after the manner of the English idiom), I see it as
referring to these two events interacting and mutually affecting each other.

Does that help?

lojbab