From xod@bway.net Sun Feb 21 13:50:40 1999 X-Digest-Num: 70 Message-ID: <44114.70.366.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 16:50:40 -0500 (EST) From: xod Subject: Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban] On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Lin Zhemin wrote: > From: Lin Zhemin > > Sat, 20 Feb 1999, zo Robin Turner(robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR) cusku di'e > > Also, as recent postings indicate, ther'es nothing to stop > > Lojban incorporating different logics, not just the "Greek" style. If Lojban were simply an > > attempt to put language into an Aristotelean straightjacket, I for one would never bother to > > learn it. > > I'm afraid that you may be wrong here. Since Lojban is firstly defined to > test the Sapir-Wholf theory, let's assume it be true first. Since Lojban is > based in predicate logic, it derives all limitation and implicities of it; > thus Lojbanists' way of thinking are limited by the logic. And the logic, Can you give me an example of a statement which can be made in some other language (English, I hope) but not in Lojban, because Lojban is based in predicate logic, but English isn't? ----- How's my typing? 1 (800) 243-6624