Re: [engelang] Logos Initiative - engelang messages

I guess for me the enjoyment I draw from Lojban comes more from the thinking and discussing about the issues and engaging with the language than about the potential achievement of some future goal, so I don't think I ever feel I'm wasting my time with it, even knowing that it has a lot of imperfections and that we will probably never make it even close to ideal.

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:10 AM, And Rosta and.rosta@hidden.email [engelang] <engelang@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

3 is something I've given a lot of thought to for many years, and it's not clear to me that we've found a good enough solution or indeed that a good enough solution exists to be found. All known solutions look to overload working memory in various ways. The problem could do with more discussion, and with me getting round to documenting my loglang's solution; that might help us grope our way to a solution.

If I remember right, your idea was that instead of variables, you would have predicate modifiers, somewhat similar to Lojban's SE, but much more powerful, since they could not only re-order argument places but also conflate them, and they didn't act only on atomic predicates but they could act on any formula. Is that more or less right? Do you have some estimate of how many of these modifiers would be required to make things work?

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