Subject: Re: [PHIL] Aussies [Re: djuno: the key issue (was: Re: Fwd: Re: [lojban] Random lojban questions/...]

From: Value Yourself <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:47:25 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jorge Llambias wrote:

>
> la xod cusku di'e
>
> > > {mi pu djuno
> > > le du'u la sidnis trutca le sralygu'e} is just as weird as
> > > "I knew that Sydney is the capital of Australia", so in this
> > > case they are substituable.
> >
> >How do you justify that it's just as weird? Remember, x4 is unspecified.
>
> It would require a really weird x4 to make the sentence true,
> just as the English can only be true only in a weird
> epistemology.

Weird, or simply mistaken.

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"The trees are green, since green is good for the eyes". I agreed
with him, and added, that God had created cattle, since beef soups
strengthen man; that he created the donkey, so that it might give
man something with which to compare himself; and he had created
man, to eat beef soup and not be a donkey.