Re: lei skami tanru pe ma'a

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

At 04:49 PM 8/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
>From: xod <xod@bway.net>
> > >Data: 5
> > >Information, data in context: "5 is the square root of 25"
> > >Knowledge, info in context: the skill of finding square roots
> >
> > Then {datni} sounds more like information, if you look
> > at its x2 and x3 places. Maybe something using {selci}
> > for data?
>
>One option is to assume that the writers of the gismu list didn't quite
>understand the subtle difference between data and information/facts, and
>that datni really means data. Who is the "authority" on such issues?

There is no authority, but I was the one who wrote the definition %^)

Please clarify what "5" which you call "data" IS.  I can see it either as 
"namcu"/"kanli"
or as datni sinxa, or as "li mu" it can be described by "sumt", since all 
sumti are in a sense "data without a bridi context".  I will confirm that 
my understanding/intent for datni is rather more like what you call 
"information".  "Knowledge" is Lojban somewhat orthogonal to "information", 
being tied to epistemology.  And "facts", well Jorge and I have agreed to 
disagree %^)