From robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR Tue Feb 23 09:28:05 1999 X-Digest-Num: 72 Message-ID: <44114.72.425.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:28:05 +0200 From: Robin Turner Subject: Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban] xod wrote: > I think that logic and ambiguity are orthogonal, meaning that all four > combinations of {logical, illogical} and {ambiguous, unambiguous} are > possible. Lojban, although it eliminates sentences which are ambiguous, > still permits sentences which violate logic, like the two-headed cow > example. That wasn't illogical, just factually untrue. It could become true through genetic engineering or accident ({zo'o mu'a} if the British keep feeding cows on sheep's brains) co'o mi'e robin.