Re: The philosophical language fallacy (was Re: Evanescence of information (was Re: Going NOMAIL: Honeymoon))

I have experimented with making a taxonomic philosophical conlang. It seemed
to me that some concepts simultaneously needed to be in 2 or 3 different
categories, e.g. "president" goes in the "people described by their
occupations or social roles" category and also in the "government" category.

I could never think of an elegant way to mark multiple categories on a
single morpheme so I abandoned the idea of doing a taxonomic conlang. The
last thing I need is more langs anyway. I often wish I could be faithful to
a single conlang but I have a wandering eye.

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