Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban]

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 12:49 AM 2/21/99 +0800, Lin Zhemin wrote:
>From: Lin Zhemin <ljm@marx.ljm.wownet.net>
>
>Before all, I'd say that, it isn't intellegible to translate something
>like Daodejing into Lojban... First, there is one more ancient version
>found in Mawangdui, and experts are trying to understand it. And then,
>since there is no punctuations in ancient Chinese, the _true_ meaning
>is impossible to be understood. Third, since Lojban derives from _logic_,
>which is a result of social working of ancient Greeks, it is
>_incompatible_ with the system of Daodejing. You just cannot understand
>many ancient Chinese things by logic; that'll be illogic. <Grin>

Actually, pc has said that both the Chinese and Hindi cultures in olden
times did have systems of logic.  I don't think he ever described how
compatible they were with modern logics., though.

lojbab