From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Mon Feb 12 11:10:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_3); 12 Feb 2001 19:10:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 2856 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2001 19:10:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 12 Feb 2001 19:10:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 12 Feb 2001 19:10:56 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id OAA13476; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:16:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:16:47 -0500 To: Invent Yourself Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Philosophy in Lojban (was: imaginary worlds etc.) Message-ID: <20010212141646.J15198@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Invent Yourself , lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from xod@sixgirls.org on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:08:28PM -0500 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:08:28PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, michael helsem wrote: > > > >From: pycyn@aol.com > > li'o > > >What is relevant is whether I could choose to do > > >something different from what I do in fact do. > > > > CUXNA (choose/select x2 from set x3) seems to refer to an > > observable action, unless we want to postulate MENLI TE CUXNAs; > > (i would maintain TE CUXNA are created by an act of expression MU'E > > CUSKU, exclusion MU'E VIMCU, or definition MU'E SKICU). > > > > Once again, Helsem points the way. This discussion should be held in > Lojban, not English. We would do well to strengthen the language and our > understanding of it! I hope I'm not the only person who sees the irony in that paragraph. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP