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la djan cusku di'e
And Rosta scripsit: > Is absolutely EVERY jboskeist now having a long dark night of the > lojbo soul? By no means. I am nowhere near despair. But we all (being reasonable persons and not fanatics) are trapped by Quine's Paradox: namely, to believe p is to believe that p is true, so I believe that each of my beliefs is true.
ro da poi do krici ke'a zo'u do krici le du'u da jetnu
Yet I also believe that some of my beliefs (I know not which) will turn out to be false if and when tested.
do krici le du'u su'o da poi do krici ke'a zo'u da jitfa No contradiction.
So: I believe that each of my beliefs is true; I believe that some of my beliefs are false.
The first one is false, if by that you mean: {mi krici le du'u
ro da poi mi krici ke'a zo'u da jetnu}. That doesn't follow from
"to believe p is to believe that p is true".
Saith Quine: "I for one had hoped for better from reasonable persons."
Does he really pose this as an unresolved paradox? mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail