Re: [lojban] ru'a

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:32:55AM +0000, tijlan wrote:
> 
> Then I wonder how exactly we should think "ru'a" differs from bare
> instances or derivatives of ".ia", "la'a", "pe'i", "da'i", "ju'a",
> "ju'o", "za'a", "ti'e", "je'u", "se'o", "ka'u", "li'a", etc.

Unknown, and IMHO irrelevant. The Lojban attitudinal system is not designed to have no overlap, and designing such a system is probably not possible in any case.

The kind of assumption that I associate with “ru'a” is probably closest to:
>   -- (law) the act of supposing that something is true, although it
> has not yet been proved or is not certain

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Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
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philosophy courses as that French guy who was wrong a lot. --Daniel Harbour

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