From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Fri Aug 17 15:29:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 17 Aug 2001 22:29:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 52806 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2001 22:29:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Aug 2001 22:29:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta3 with SMTP; 17 Aug 2001 22:29:25 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f7HMTOW03164 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:29:24 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:29:24 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] epistemology sumti In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Invent Yourself wrote: > > Many gismu (and some cmavo) have places for epistemologies. Yet, I can'= t > > recall ever reading something where there was a value besides the impli= cit > > zo'e being the epistemology. > > > > So, I'm wondering, what do epistemology sumti look like? > > Think of it like a belief system. It is a black box that tells you whethe= r > a given fact is true or false. I understand what an epistemology is. :) I just not sure how to construct a sumti appropriate to act as an epistemology. I'd imagine that if I were forced to produce right one now I couldn't be any more articulate than tu'a + something else relevent. (Like, {tu'a mi} for "my beliefs" or "according to me") > It's nice because it doesn't have a quick and simple English gloss. If thats another way of saying "this should be explained in Lojban", then, by all means, I'm listening. :) - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose