Reversed "avowal"

[victor steinbok]

Wouldn't that be a "disavowal"?

Question to GAT: when you refer to "letter counters", do you mean literals
or missives? Put another way: characters or mailed messages?

VS-)

PS: Yes, that was a rhetorical question (the second, not the first).

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

>
> On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:12 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>
> > I am finding this thread very confusing. When Nixon said, "I am not a
> > crook", was that an avowal?
>
> I'd say so.  He avowed (asserted, claimed, declared) that he was not a
> crook.  So it was an avowal, a claim, and a declaration.  On the other hand,
> I'm not sure I'd call it an assertion, partly because "denial" is such a
> handy way of characterizing assertions with negative content. YMMV.
>
> LH

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