[lit-ideas] Re: How elementary, elementary?

  • From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:18:33 +0100 (BST)

 
> > *First, a cat is not an 'object.'
> 
> Again it seems to me there is a clear sense in which "a cat", such as my
> cat
> Tinka, is an object. Perhaps you can clarify how there is no sense in which
> a
> cat is not an 'object'. 


OK's failure to point out that I should of course have written "Perhaps...cat
is an 'object'" may be put down to sheer politeness on his part rather than a
failure of close reading or reading-ability. But as to whether his failure to
address the salient issues in the rest of the relevant post can be so
generously interpreted, well,......

Donal



        
        
                
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