[OT] Re: [lojban] lojban application in wearable computing

[Robin Turner <robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR>]

On Thursday 14 March 2002 21:08, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/14/2002 6:51:20 AM Central Standard Time,
>
> robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR writes:
> > "Give me the views, and I'll give you the arguments." - Chrysippus
>
> In context, probably better as "Give me the theorems and I'll give you the
> proofs"  This is the classic young logician letting his teacher (Diodoros
> Chronos?) know that the pupil has passed the teacher by (he seems to have
> found the automatic proof procedures for Stoic propositional calculus). 
> But he was week on conditionals.

Well, I take your word for it.  Chrysippus is so hard to follow that other 
Stoics  (notably Epictetus, if I remember correctly) used to poke fun at 
people who claimed they could understand him.

robin.tr