Re: Logical?
From: | And Rosta <a-rosta@...> |
Date: | Monday, June 10, 2002, 21:19 |
Christopher B Wright:
> Jim Grossmann sekalge:
> >What does it mean for an artificial language to be "logical"?
>
> A language whose grammar and usually phonology are complete, accurate,
> and work for every situation. There is no guessing, and there are no
> irregular words. There are no exceptions. Such languages aren't fun in
> any way.
That is what might be called a 'layperson's' definition of logicality
in language. Among conlangers, though, -- though auxlangers may
pattern here with the laypeople -- 'logical' tends to mean 'based
on formal logic', or, in a more refined sense, that the grammar
assigns to every sentence an explicit logical formula.
--And.