[lojban] Re: Mass Lojban Conversion

["M@" <matthew.dunlap@gmail.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Arnold

I disagree. One of the most serious problems with critical thinking
skills is the failure to have operating definitions for one's terms.
It is difficult to answer a question if I don't know the meaning of
the words used in the question. Then I literally don't know what I'm
asking, which means "I don't know what I'm talking about" is true in
the literal sense of that phrase.



"I don't know what I'm talking about" is a very different phrase from "I
don't know what I'm thinking about".  It's important to differentiate
between communication and thinking.  

Case in ironic point, consider the original phrase, "...you vaguely know
what you are thinking about."  Taken literally the second half is obviously
redundant because at their essence the only difference between "think" and
"know" is the level of confidence (ie. vaguely know == think).  Taken
figuratively (or more accurately, taken as if the "you are thinking" was
meant to be "someone is talking") it is more meaningful, and maybe (note the
evidence of ambiguity marker there) what he was thinking.  But that's really
the key: he (critically) knew what he meant even though the communication
phase/language was ambiguous. 

--M@






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