About that question on hyponyms

[bryllars at concentric.net]

Ja - Mann sprecht  Deutsch    No news - just to establish that generic is
as old as claimed

Med Lov skall man land bygge.

Almost all  men can speak and she does.  (not as "bad" as the syllogism -
though not

  likely to occur. ie wierd)

It is not clear that "men" is generic in the same way as "Man".

Thank you for the syllogism.

Man is an animal. Sharon stone is a member of the class Man.
Sharon Stone is an animal.

Bryllars at concentric.net



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
>
>