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Loglan 1: A Logical Language

James Cooke Brown

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Description:Loglan is a language design to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that the natural languages limit human thought. It does so by pushing those limits outwards in predictable directions, principally by:* incorporating the notational elegance of symbolic logic (it is transformationally powerful);* forcing the fewest possible assumptions about "reality" on its speakers (it is metaphyscially parsimonious);* removing all structural sources of ambiguity (in Loglan anything, no matter how implausible, can be said clearly; for it is syntactically unambiguous);* generalizing all semantic operations (whatever can be done to any Loglan word may be done to every Loglan word; for it is semantically non-restrictive;* deriving its basic word-stock from eight natural languages, including three Oriental ones (it is therefore culturally neutral);As befits a research instrument, Loglan is also small (its grammar is an order of magnitude smaller than any natural grammar), easily learned (there are about 1000 basic words and their recognized ability is maximized) and isomorphic (there are not structural differences between its spoken and written forms). This last feature, together with its logical power and lack of ambiguity, may make Loglan an ideal instrument for talking with computers.Twenty years in the making, Loglan was originally the creation of a University of Florida social psychologist. The original papers on the subject appears in 1960. The project received a government grant (NIH) in 1961-62 when its grammar was developed on computers. In recent years, work has concentrated on developing a broad interface between Loglan and the natural languages.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Loglan 1: A Logical Language. To get started finding Loglan 1: A Logical Language, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 300

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Loglan Insitute, Inc.

Release: 1975

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Description: Loglan is a language design to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that the natural languages limit human thought. It does so by pushing those limits outwards in predictable directions, principally by:* incorporating the notational elegance of symbolic logic (it is transformationally powerful);* forcing the fewest possible assumptions about "reality" on its speakers (it is metaphyscially parsimonious);* removing all structural sources of ambiguity (in Loglan anything, no matter how implausible, can be said clearly; for it is syntactically unambiguous);* generalizing all semantic operations (whatever can be done to any Loglan word may be done to every Loglan word; for it is semantically non-restrictive;* deriving its basic word-stock from eight natural languages, including three Oriental ones (it is therefore culturally neutral);As befits a research instrument, Loglan is also small (its grammar is an order of magnitude smaller than any natural grammar), easily learned (there are about 1000 basic words and their recognized ability is maximized) and isomorphic (there are not structural differences between its spoken and written forms). This last feature, together with its logical power and lack of ambiguity, may make Loglan an ideal instrument for talking with computers.Twenty years in the making, Loglan was originally the creation of a University of Florida social psychologist. The original papers on the subject appears in 1960. The project received a government grant (NIH) in 1961-62 when its grammar was developed on computers. In recent years, work has concentrated on developing a broad interface between Loglan and the natural languages.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Loglan 1: A Logical Language. To get started finding Loglan 1: A Logical Language, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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