Talk:Philosophical language

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I believe that Toki Pona is mislabeled a philosophical language. Its "elevator pitch" links is with Daoism but there's not really a strong connection. If no one objects I'll remove it from the list of modern philosphical languages. --Logomachist 20:17, 13 January 2012 (PST)

From the page: "A philosophical language is an engineered language which attempts to implement some kind of philosophical idea."
According to Wikipedia, TP it's inspired by taoist philosophy and tries to implement/test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, so I think it counts.
Keep. —Fenhl 02:14, 14 January 2012 (PST)
It is kind of weird that a general definition is given, but then all the focus is given on the specific (and IME more common) definition of a taxonomically-arranged language—a context under which Toki Pona certainly does not belong. If Toki Pona is kept we might want to list it under a subsection of other types of philosophical languages, probably with some explanation. —Muke Tever | 10:05, 14 January 2012 (PST)