World Logic Day (14 January)

[Ross Clark]

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.

[Antonio Marques]

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

[Tilde]

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

[HenHanna]

Post by Tilde

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

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

[Peter Moylan]

Post by HenHanna

Post by Ross Clark
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.

[occam]

Post by Peter Moylan

Post by Ross Clark
Attempts to create logically consistent artificial languages have not
met with much success.

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Post by Peter Moylan
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.