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  • World Logic Day (14 January)

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 16 23:14:00 2024
    Proclaimed in 2019 by UNESCO in association with the International
    Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences.
    Why this date? Officially:
    Birthday of Alfred Tarski (1901)
    Deathday of Kurt Gödel (1978)
    and (Crystal adds)
    Deathday of Charles Dodgson (1898)

    Of course (as people have to be reminded from time to time here and on
    a.u.e.) natural languages do not always follow anybody's rules of logic. Attempts to create logically consistent artificial languages have not
    met with much success.

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  • From Antonio Marques@21:1/5 to Ross Clark on Sun Jan 21 01:27:28 2024
    Ross Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
    Proclaimed in 2019 by UNESCO in association with the International
    Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences.
    Why this date? Officially:
    Birthday of Alfred Tarski (1901)
    Deathday of Kurt Gödel (1978)
    and (Crystal adds)
    Deathday of Charles Dodgson (1898)

    Of course (as people have to be reminded from time to time here and on a.u.e.) natural languages do not always follow anybody's rules of logic. Attempts to create logically consistent artificial languages have not
    met with much success.


    What’s ironic is that I had to read this three times before I noticed it
    was World and not Word. Maybe because there’s no logical way to write it,
    the qualifier sounds off.

    And I had hoped this would have an explanation of what Word Logic was.

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  • From Tilde@21:1/5 to Ross Clark on Sun Jan 21 20:33:19 2024
    Ross Clark wrote:
    Proclaimed in 2019 by UNESCO in association with the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences.
    Why this date? Officially:
    Birthday of Alfred Tarski (1901)
    Deathday of Kurt Gödel (1978)
    and (Crystal adds)
    Deathday of Charles Dodgson (1898)

    Of course (as people have to be reminded from time to time here and on a.u.e.) natural languages do not always follow anybody's rules of logic. Attempts to create logically consistent artificial languages have not met with much success.

    Hmmm. World Logic... Sounds like a great idea! Does not
    appear to have caught yet, though.

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Tilde on Mon Jul 15 12:10:43 2024
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    On 1/21/2024 7:33 PM, Tilde wrote:
    Ross Clark wrote:

    Proclaimed in 2019 by UNESCO in association with the International
    Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences.

    Why this date? Officially:

    Birthday of Alfred Tarski (1901)
    Deathday of Kurt Gödel (1978)
    and (Crystal adds)
    Deathday of Charles Dodgson (1898)

    Of course (as people have to be reminded from time to time here and on
    a.u.e.) natural languages do not always follow anybody's rules of logic.
    Attempts to create logically consistent artificial languages have not
    met with much success.


    Are yo saing that THAT was a big factor ?


    logically consistent artificial languages ???



    Hmmm. World Logic... Sounds like a great idea! Does not
    appear to have caught yet, though.

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  • From Peter Moylan@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Tue Jul 16 09:36:10 2024
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    On 16/07/24 05:10, HenHanna wrote:
    Ross Clark wrote:

    Attempts to create logically consistent artificial languages have not
    met with much success.

    Are yo saing that THAT was a big factor ?
    logically consistent artificial languages ???

    There are apparently still some speakers of Lojban.

    --
    Peter Moylan [email protected] http://www.pmoylan.org
    Newcastle, NSW

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  • From occam@21:1/5 to Peter Moylan on Tue Jul 16 15:16:56 2024
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    On 16/07/2024 01:36, Peter Moylan wrote:

    Ross Clark wrote:

    Attempts to create logically consistent artificial languages have not
    met with much success.

    <snip>


    There are apparently still some speakers of Lojban.


    Thanks for the pointer. I'd never heard of Lojban, Loglan, or their
    spin-offs.

    When one occasionally hears frightening stats of extinct languages
    [Definition "Extinct language: a language with no living descendants
    that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers"] does
    it include these aberrations? All of a sudden, I don't feel so bad about extinction.

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