[lojban] The trouble with color-names, taste-names, smell-names, and perception categorisation in general

[Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com>]

The trouble with color-names, taste-names, smell-names, and such is
that each gismu space that can be attributed to span them seems
somewhat arbitrary.

Even in the sense that human beings won't share the same space as
other animals or artificial devices (robots, etc)

This is indeed of problem of splitting one big semantic space into parts.

This has even to do with categorization in general, on a cognitive level.

Suppose sombedoy sees a red Ferrari car that rides fast

He will say "the red Ferrari car rides fast"

But what does he perceives ?

Surely something like that :

{ object-perceived : item,
 objet-color : RGB(100%, 5%, 5%),
 color-context : greenish-around,
 object-speed : 200mph,
 object-shape : car,
 animated : yes-but-artificial(driven) }

Now : THIS is "red"

{ object-perceived : item,
 objet-color : RGB(100%, 5%, 5%),
 color-context : greenish-around }

THIS is "car"

{  object-shape : car,
 animated : yes-but-artificial(driven) }

THIS is "Ferrari"

{ objet-color : RGB(100%, 5%, 5%),
   object-shape : car }

THIS is "rides"

{ object-speed : 200mph,
 object-shape : car,
 animated : yes-but-artificial(driven) }

THIS is "fast"

{ object-speed : 200mph }

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So the sentence is an "intrication" of what is perceived.   But how
should the gismu space divided is still a little arbitrary.

AT LEAST, we can see that the gismu tend to overlap each other ==> so
it is not necessarily bad that there be some redundancy in the gismu
space

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