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Re: [jboske] factivity of nu

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Cowan wrote:

> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> > (In a work of fiction, is the real world the fictional world?)
>
> You betcha.  "If Odysseus had decided to settle down with Calypso,
> the slaughter of the suitors would never have happened."
>
> > --And, still bemused by a whorfian logical positivist!
>
> Who?



He refers to me. And interestingly enough, I find my SW-favoring approach
to Lojban is a direct outgrowth of my rejection of it (and every spoken
language) as a deductive system, a feeling which induced sympathy the
first time I stumbled upon the works of the Logical Positivists.



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