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Robin's gadri Proposal

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pc:
> At least since Fridegesus (I haven't checked the spelling), talking about
> nothing has been a problem (see the bit from Alice cited in CLL). Lojban
> ought to do a good job at this and make it clear that what is involved is
> always simply the denial of something. And I think it does.

So do I. That's why I think it odd that {zbasu fi noda} would even
implicate that something did go on, when it is just a denial of
something.

> Is {lo noda} really grammatical?

Yep.

> What does it mean, spelled out in detail?

I would say something like "that which is nothing". An odd thing indeed.

> I am not at all sure that {la djig zbasu le munje noda} implicates {la djig
> zbasu le munje zi'o}, unless we can expand on what that means.

{la djig zbasu le munje zi'o} means that Jeeg made the world. Whether
or not there was some material to start with is not mentioned.

> I don't mean
> that the lack of material is the only reason that Jeeg didn't pull it off,
> only that it is the one being blamed at the moment. In the traditional case,
> of course, it is not even the reason it did not come off, since it did, and
> in that case the {zi'o} form is appropiate.

But is the {noda} form appropriate to say that Jeeg did pull it off?

> Consequently, we can see how
> {zbasu2} is different from {patfu2}: being a father is definitionally linked
> (bound) to there being children of the subject while creating is not so
> linked to there being preexisting material out of which to construct
> (asssuming the traditional story is not just meaningless). Not having
> children is sufficient (and also necessary) for not being a father, not
> having material is neither for not creating.

That's why I think {zbasu} is bloated, or at least it has a more restricted
meaning than "create". It would be better to have a basic word for the more
general meaning "x1 makes x2", from which the more specific "x1 makes x2
out of x3" can be derived, than the other way around.

mu'o mi'e xorxes





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