Linguistic Anthropology Digest V1 #864

Mahendra K. Verma mkv1 at york.ac.uk
Fri Oct 19 13:05:47 UTC 2001


on 19/10/01 9:00 am, Linguistic Anthropology Digest at
owner-linganth-digest at ats.rochester.edu wrote:

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> Linguistic Anthropology Digest Friday, October 19 2001 Volume 01 : Number 864
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> <no subject>
> Re: About that question on hyponyms
> Re: About that question on hyponyms
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> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:28:19 +0100
> From: Mahendra Verma <mkv1 at york.ac.uk>
> Subject: <no subject>
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> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:48:10 -0400
> From: Ronald Kephart <rkephart at unf.edu>
> Subject: Re: About that question on hyponyms
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> Celso wrote:
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>> ... "Half of all men can bear children and breastfeed" is very
>> strange, to say the least.
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> My favorite:
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> All men are mortal;
> Sharon Stone is a man;
> Therefore, she is mortal.
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> Ron
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> Ronald Kephart
> Associate Professor & Coordinator
> Program in Foreign Languages
> Dept. of English & Foreign Languages
> University of North Florida
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> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:54:23 -0400
> From: bryllars at concentric.net
> Subject: Re: About that question on hyponyms
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> Ja - Mann sprecht  Deutsch    No news - just to establish that generic is
> as old as claimed
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> Med Lov skall man land bygge.
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> Almost all  men can speak and she does.  (not as "bad" as the syllogism -
> though not
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> likely to occur. ie wierd)
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> It is not clear that "men" is generic in the same way as "Man".
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> Thank you for the syllogism.
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> Man is an animal. Sharon stone is a member of the class Man.
> Sharon Stone is an animal.
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> Bryllars at concentric.net
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> At 07:48 AM 10/18/01 -0400, you wrote:
>> Celso wrote:
>>
>>> ... "Half of all men can bear children and breastfeed" is very
>>> strange, to say the least.
>>
>> My favorite:
>>
>> All men are mortal;
>> Sharon Stone is a man;
>> Therefore, she is mortal.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> Ronald Kephart
>> Associate Professor & Coordinator
>> Program in Foreign Languages
>> Dept. of English & Foreign Languages
>> University of North Florida
>>
>>
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Hi

Could you tell me how to unsubcribe. Thanks.

mahendra



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