Re: Knowledge & Belief

["Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU>]

>Date:         Wed, 31 Dec 1997 11:13:23 -0600
>From: Steven Belknap <sbelknap@UIC.EDU>
>
><la stivn djuno le du'u la xorxes djuno le du'u la lojbab klama le zarci
>kei fo da>
>
>"Steven knows that Jorge knows that Lojbab goes to the store."
>
>The above statement is always false, which considerably limits its utility.
>I am asserting that it is not possible to directly know that some else
>knows something.

That means that "djuno" can *never* be used (truthfully) except with a
first-person x1.  That REALLY limits *its* utility!  Can that be right?

~mark