[lit-ideas] Re: GRE Registration
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 18:07:25 -0700
Judy Evans wrote:
> Friday, May 13, 2005, 12:23:06 AM, Robert Paul wrote:
>
> RP> Judy Evans wrote:
>>>RP> Just what you'd expect a Canadian to say. However, scrap paper, although
>>>RP> it can be jotted on (q.v.) is paper meant for scrap.
>>>No it is not! It is scrap paper!
Then she wrote:
> RP> I'm not sure how this gets us any forwarder.
> I also think this gets us forwarder.
Let us retrace this argument. One may sketch it thus:
A: Scrap paper is meant for scrap.
B: No, it isn't. It is scrap paper!
Now, an impartial observer, C, might think that B had merely repeated,
with emphasis, what A had initially said, without explaining the meaning
of 'scrap paper.' That a thing is identical with itself is perhaps news
in Wales, but I suspect that deeper issues are lurking here.
Robert Paul
Coming down with hives,
somewhere West of Lake Oswego
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