Re: [lojban] defining words in Lojban

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 09 December 2011 07:40:50 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>   I guess the first question we need to ask is "should lojban even have
> words that have more than one scope?"  Assuming the answer is yes, then
> since the structure is the same regardless of the exact definition, I would
> just put it once, and then the three definitions.  Incidentally, thatnks
> for teaching me about "Crown groups".  I had never heard of that before.

So how would you word the definition?

>  (But then, back when I learned biology there were only two groups of
> animals: "Things you can eat" and "Things that will eat you".)

That dichotomy is easily disproved: the piranha is in both categories, and 
brachiopods are in neither. And of course, the human cannot be in only one 
category.

Pierre
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