Subject: Re: [lojban] Are attitudinals assertions? (was: Attitudinals again (was: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:37:16

la xod cusku di'e

> > Is a smile an assertion to you?
>
>Isn't it? If not, why not?

No, because there is no proposition involved.

>How are you defining "assertion"?

The act of indicating that a given proposition is true.
How do you define it?

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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