Re: Reflexivity

>Actually, SELF is a rather contraintuitive word for EGO. Originally self
>means exactly what we would like it to mean: reflexivity. BUT, German
>philosophers began using it for one's Ego (Selbst, if I am not
>mistaken), and English just picked it up like many other things from
>many other languages. So, the main and primary meaning of self is
>reflexive, and if sevzi was intended to be used that way (which I
>believe to be true) then it's definition is strongly misleading.

I suggest that if you would like to propose a new, less misleading
defintion that does not change the place structure, we could consider
it.  I suspect that EGO is (and should be) a lujvo of said word.

lojbab
Cc: lojban


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