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BPFK Section: Epistemology sumtcita

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> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:58:52 -0500, John Cowan
> <jcowan@reutershealth.com> wrote:
> > Jorge Llambías scripsit:
> >
> > > The expansion I would propose for {bau}
> then is:
> > >
> > > broda bau ko'a = lo nu broda cu nu ko'a
> bangu
> > >
> > > This expansion, which automatically creates
> an event place
> > > for the main bridi, might also work for
> other BAIs that don't have
> > > event/du'u places.
> >
> > The trouble with that is that it's
> semantically vacuous.
>
> How is it vacuous?
>
> mi'o casnu bau la lojban
> "We discuss in Lojban."
>
> lo nu mi'o casnu cu nu la lojban bangu
> "Our discussing is an event of lojban being the
> language used."
>
> It says of the event of our discussion that it
> is an event in which
> Lojban is the language used. That doesn't seem
> vacuous to me.
> If we discuss in English, then our discussion
> is not an event in
> which Lojban is the language used, and neither
> should
> {mi'o casnu bau la lojban} be true in that
> case, even if we
> are discussing Lojban for example.
>
But it says "Our discussion is an event of Lojban
being a language (used by someone for some
communication)" It is hard to imagine — now --
any event which is not that, in some loose sense
at least.