From jjllambias@hotmail.com Sun Mar 18 19:57:43 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jjllambias@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 19 Mar 2001 03:57:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 47756 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2001 03:57:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 19 Mar 2001 03:57:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.50) by mta1 with SMTP; 19 Mar 2001 03:57:42 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:57:42 -0800 Received: from 200.41.210.17 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 03:57:42 GMT X-Originating-IP: [200.41.210.17] To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Random lojban questions/annoyances. Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 03:57:42 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Mar 2001 03:57:42.0590 (UTC) FILETIME=[BF9705E0:01C0B028] From: "Jorge Llambias" la camgusnis cusku di'e >"I used to know how to change a spark plug". But "how to change a spark plug" is not a fact! mi pu kakne le nu bastygau lo . > > Surety is not required, only truth. Do we really want a situation > > in which A knows that G is a koala, whereas B knows that G is a >chimpanzee? > >Otherwise lack of accurate knowledge results in linguistic invalidity, >which I don't find acceptable. Every sentence everyone ever utters could be false due to lack of accurate knowledge. What is it that you don't find acceptable about that? What do you mean by "linguistic invalidity"? co'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.