Comments by Calion
These are the 6 posts of 8 by Calion.
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Outdated sources
I want to be clear: It is probably not a mistake to trust glosses from an outdated source?
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Contribution “melissë” by Calion
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Casta
Is there, then, an alternative that would mean something like "reason" in the sense of "reasoning"?
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Source abbreviations
Then I think there needs to be a page listing the abbreviations, or at least links to them. And as for KYAR, that's really confusing, as KYAR is in the exact same notation as QL. Perhaps this needs to be regularized.
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Casta
So I've discovered something pretty awesome. I have no idea if anyone's discovered it before (I assume they have, but a Web search doesn't turn anything up). Please don't tell me I'm wrong! But I don't see how I can be.
I was looking for a Quenya word for "reason" in the philosophical sense (i.e. The Dream of Reason). The only thing Parf Edhellen gave me was casta "cause," which means "reason" in one sense (as in "the reason something happened"), but not in the sense I wanted ("the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic").
But then, on another site entirely, I noticed that "casta" also means "fraction" (specifically ¼, but also, if I'm not mistaken, "fraction" in general). I came back here to verify, and sure enough, that seems to be correct.
So why is this significant? Because our English word "rationality" is derived from "ratio"; in other words, fraction! (This is not an accident; to the ancient Greeks, to reason correctly about fractions was the source or beginning of logical thinking.)
So, then, "casta" means (or rather, can mean) just exactly "reason" in the logical/philosophical sense!
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Source abbreviations
Where in the world is the page that lists all the source abbreviations (like "QL" or "KYAR") used in entries? I cannot find it for the life of me. It needs to be linked more prominently—from the Home page or the About page.