[lit-ideas] Re: Convention -- Conventional?
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:02:16 EDT
In a message dated 8/31/2004 8:25:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, JimKandJu
lieB@xxxxxxx writes:
Did anyone watch any of the Rep. convention last night?
Julie Krueger
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When I read the subject line, I thought this was going to be a discussion of
David Lewis's book, _Convention_. Why is "Republican" omitted in the subject
line. Lexically, it makes you wonder why a thing as the Republican (or
Democrat) convention is _called_ a convention (at all). For Lewis (and other
philosophers) holding the fork with the left hand and the knife with the right
hand
_is_ a convention (or using 'red', 'yellow' and 'green' in traffic lights).
I think the idea here (with Republicans and Democrats) is that they _convene_
(as per 'convenience') into a _definite_ spot?
Cheers,
JL
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