From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Apr 26 10:06:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 26 Apr 2001 17:06:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 15129 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2001 17:06:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Apr 2001 17:06:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 26 Apr 2001 17:06:26 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14spDm-00040S-00 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:06:26 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:06:26 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Usage of logical connectives? Message-ID: <20010426100626.V8953@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from jjllambias@hotmail.com on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:33:03PM +0000 From: Robin Lee Powell On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:33:03PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la robyspir cusku di'e > >and replace them with gismu which express the idea the way we would > >in English. > > I'm not sure what you mean here. My claim is that the idea that the > parent wants to express is not one that has much to do with logical > connectives. It has to do with cause and effect, or rather with > compliance and reward. So, once again (and I'm going to keep asking this until someone answers) what use do the logical connectives have? What information do they transmit to the listener in a normal conversation? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/