Re: logical gaffs

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

>>The religious do not accept that "facts
>>are "assumptions" and therefore "subjective".  That God is an absolute and
>>exists whetehr you believe in him or not, means that His law is inhgerently
>>NOT subjective.
>
>Quite, but the Lojban translation reveals that any objectivity of
>--More--
>'murder' must rely on some absolute authority, whereas 'murder' in the
>English 'abortion is murder' appears to be objective all by itself -- and
>_that_ is the subterfuge.
>
>I'm not claiming that Lojban will help disprove the existence of an
>absolute authority, only that English is susceptible to a particular kind
>of error that Lojban is not.

I think that people who would assume an absolute authority in the Lojban
feel that same absolute authoirty is built into the English definition
(and harkens back to one of the 10 commandments).  Such people seem to
see EVERYTHING as black and white with rgards to the same absolute authoirty.

I don't think that the typical religious LOjbanist would ever fill in the
x2 indicating authority, and would be utterly flabbergasted at any question
as to the specific inmind value that he had if asked to fill it in.

One could therefore say that English "murder"
also requires an indication of authority, but that usage never includes it.
The x2 place is part of the Lojban prescriotion - there is no guarantee that
Lojbanists 200 years from now will still recognize it.

lojbab
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