Re: The Clay Ballerina
Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for the puzzle in alt.philosophy
Author: Wolf Kirchmeir
Date: Sep 18, 2008 11:15
.... Siggy, your response indicates that you are are assuming that if there's a noun for it, it must be a thing. IOW, the 6th grade concept of "noun" is misleading you. Think "referents" instead of "things", and the puzzle disappears. A noun is simply that class of word that appears as the head of a noun phrase. The fact that we use some nouns to refer to people, others to refer to objects, others to refer to sensations, etc, is ...
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