[lit-ideas] Re: "The Cat Was On The Mat; And What He Did There."

>>the cat is on the  mat.

As he notes:
"That's ambiguous. Surely it's the bones and the skin that are on the 
French suede mat. It's never as simple as  that".
Indeed, and it's best to talk of _complex_. "The cat is on the mat" is a 
_complex_.
A "process" metaphysician -- a'la Alan Watts or Father Teilhard -- might choose to see all nouns as verbs. In the sense that the earth "peoples" or apple trees "apple." Cats are really "catting" ... i.e., the universe producing a cat form. Even mats might be an indirect expression of natural forces. 

The catting sat on the matting.
Similarly in "It's raining." Es regnet. What is doing the raining? What is that "it"? There is rain, not as noun but as verb. 
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