[lit-ideas] Re: "The Causal Theory of Perception"

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:29:21 -0500

JL:

 -- the scare quote 'gay' is because it is my tenet that _literal_  ways
to refer to sexual orientations are never available, and that we have to
appeal to metaphor. In this case, it is a well known fact that 'gay' was used 
for prostitutes in the naughty nineties in London:



Oh.  I just assumed you meant a happy, go-lucky fellow.  My bad.

Mike Geary
Memphis 
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