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Re: [lojban] Events
At 04:17 PM 04/18/2001 -0400, Value Yourself wrote:
On 18 Apr 2001 david@shockey.com wrote:
> This is well outside of my areas of expertise, but, it would seem to me
that time would have no meaning without events.
Empty points of spacetime are called "events", whether or not anything
important occurs there.
If anyone disputes this use of the word "event", they can go to
<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-holearg/>
I understand the difference between this and the nu abstractor. My
question remains; was there a connection in the minds of those who decided
to use the english word "event"?
As the other mind in question (other than pc), I have to say that
relativity theory was the last thing on my mind at the time, though in
later discussions of tense, I believe I was one the people who brought in
the spacetime analogy for spatial tenses.
My use of the term "event" for "nu" came from pc's description of
Aristotelian event analysis.
I suspect that JCB's earlier analysis was similarly based on ancient
logical-philosophical traditions, though pc could probably better tell you
which ones. He often used the phrasing "event, state, or condition".
lojbab
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