From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Feb 28 11:38:45 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 28 Feb 2002 19:38:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 71161 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2002 19:38:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Feb 2002 19:38:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Feb 2002 19:38:44 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02909; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:38:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C7E8721.2070601@reutershealth.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:38:09 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies References: <152.9a4c464.29afcdd0@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan pycyn@aol.com wrote: > I assume that {abu} refers to "a" and that its use as a pronoun is > dependent upon that and a convention, not that it is directly a > pronoun. Abstractly speaking, yes. But in terms of syntax, "abu" is a pronoun (outside MEX) and can't be used for the letter "a". Inside ordinary MEX it is a variable, still not the letter "a". > The list explanation for {me'o} is more opaque than usual, > could be read that way, I guess. See the Book. me'o gives unevaluated expressions. > It could also be read as not applying > on the ground that {pa} is not an unevaluated mathematical expression. Why not? It's a degenerate case, to be sure. > And what does {pabu} mean, then (if it is legal, as it should be)? It is not yet defined to mean anything in particular. > (though that a sequence is a 1-array makes a kind of > sense). So it is in many programming languages. > I would write n, n', n'', ... as ny. ny.bu ny.bubu ... (People who say "n double prime" should be dissected!) -- John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_