From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Aug 23 11:31:51 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 23 Aug 2001 18:31:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 70836 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2001 18:29:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Aug 2001 18:29:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 23 Aug 2001 18:29:59 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01865; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:31:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B854B6F.807@reutershealth.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:29:03 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: And Rosta Cc: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] ce'u References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan And Rosta wrote: > Is an imaginary happening a fasnu. Not unless imaginary events are currently real. It is perhaps best to say that contrary-to-fact events exist. > If not, then what category do imaginary happenings belong to, They are na'e zasti, or xanri. > and why don't imaginary dogs and people belong to it too? Perhaps it is le si'o du la zofaidos that is zasti, but maybe it is la zofaidos. himself. (I named this imaginary dog after Whatsisname's imaginary dog 'Fido' (that is, his name is "'Fido'"). > And you didn't say what the difference between nu and du'u is... They are different classes of abstract objects. I'm not sure how to explain it better. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel