Re: [lojban] re: djuno [was: random lojban annoyance

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, michael helsem wrote:

>        Let's keep LA .UEBSTR. out of this... What's chiefly
> distinguished in Lojban is the amount of sumti places that
> semantically similar words use. Off the top of my head i can
> think of five (plus JIJNU if you accept intuitive knowledge).
>
> One with two places:
>
> BIRTI- x1 is certain/sure/positive/convinced that x2 is true. (Meant to
> contrast with SENPI, i'm sure.)


More elegantly expressed as lujvo of jinvi or djuno.


> Two with three places:
> KRICI- x1 believes [without evidence] that belief/creed x2 (du'u) is
> true/assumed about subject x3.


What the heck does "without evidence" mean? Nobody believes anything
without evidence. That their evidence is flimsy to another person is a
separate issue.



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