From cowan@ccil.org Sun Mar 25 15:22:07 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 25 Mar 2001 23:22:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 7077 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2001 23:22:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 25 Mar 2001 23:22:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3 with SMTP; 26 Mar 2001 00:23:10 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14hJpo-000078-00; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:22:08 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Linguistics study In-Reply-To: from And Rosta at "Mar 25, 2001 09:12:00 pm" To: And Rosta Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:22:08 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan And Rosta scripsit: > To a Lojban enthusiast, I would recommend James D. McCawley's > _Everything linguists always wanted to know about logic_, which > many of us here admire (tho John Cowan is also a Quine fan). I must admit that I broke down irrevocably on McCawley's preface to the 2nd ed., in which he explains that he has changed the title of his book by expressing it in the same words as before; if he had wanted to keep the (semantically) same title, its surface form would have been _Everything linguists had always wanted to know about logic_. A good intro to Quine's way of thinking (not necessarily to his precise philosophical views) is _Quiddities_. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter