[lit-ideas] Paradeigmata

  • From: jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:56:44 EST


In a message dated 1/3/2010 5:23:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rpaul@xxxxxxxx writes:

A few  minutes ago I wrote:

> Homer (aside to JL), was, for Plato the of a  poet.

This should have been

> Homer (aside to JL), was, for  Plato, the paradigm of a poet.

Robert Paul
 
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Geary to JL, "I have it".
 
"Have what?"
 
"The title for my thing".
 
"What thing?"
 
"My thing -- my novel".
 
"Whoa?"
 
"Paradeigmata".
 
"??"
 
"It's a parody of Zeno of Elea, who had his Epicheiremata."
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In a message dated 1/3/2010 5:23:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rpaul@xxxxxxxx writes:

A few  minutes ago I wrote:

> Homer (aside to JL), was, for Plato the of a  poet.

This should have been

> Homer (aside to JL), was, for  Plato, the paradigm of a poet.

Robert Paul
 
---- The Palmian, Gricean, query, next is:
 
"Is a paradigm of x an x?"
 
Says who?
 
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Cheers,

JL


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