Re: [lojban] Re: other-centric UI

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Adam D. Lopresto <adam@pubcrawler.org> wrote:
> Some states of mind are more common for states
> of the world that are assumed not to presently be true (hope, for instance),

I agree with the rest of what you said, but one minor digression about hope:

Hope does not assume non-factuality. It assumes neither factuality nor
non-factuality. You can say for example "I hope that you are well".
This does not assume you are not well, in fact for hope to be possible
it must assume that your being well is a possibility. Or "I hope he
passed the exam". For the hope to make sense, I cannot assume that he
did not pass.This is how hope differs from wish. Wish does assume
non-factuality: "I wish you were well" (I know that you are not well,
but my preferred state of affairs would be different), "I wish he had
passed the exam" (I know he didn't pass, but my preferred state of
affairs would be that he had passed).

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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