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Re: CHAT: Religion, Philosophy & Politics

From:Ed Heil <edh@...>
Date:Friday, May 5, 2000, 3:43
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:56:44PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Herman Miller scripsit: > > > Interesting. Jarrda uses essentially the same solution as Loglan, in the > > case of words such as "large". But "red" is specifically defined as a > > particular frequency of light. If you claim that something is "red" in > > Jarrda, what that basically means is that it is more similar to the > > definition of "red" than it is to any of the other words in the same > > category. > > The trouble is that something can look red without reflecting that > frequency of light at all. The human vision system is extremely complex.
Uh oh. Qualia. :)