[lit-ideas] Re: things we know
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On Thu, 29-Oct-09, Donal McEvoy wrote:
a synthesis of Hegelians, a utility of Pragmatists, a unity of
Kantians, a nonsense of Logical Positivists, a form of Platonists, a
lumpen of Marxists etc. The collective for this collective?
On 31-Oct-09, at 8:07 PM, Eric Yost wrote:
>>The collective for this collective?
a muddle of philosophers
a saga of novelists
a twist of short story writers
an exposition of essayists
a choir of poets
a reverie of memoirists
a pit of opera composers
a tangle of architects
The classic collection of such collective terms is James Lipton's AN
EXALTATION OF LARKS (in which, among many other things, he asserts
that 'an exaltation of larks' has credentials as good as the mundane
and universally accepted 'school of fish').
There are several 'Collective Nouns' pages on the Internet, which one
finds simply by entering that term (i.e., 'collective nouns') in a
search engine. Wikipedia even has lists of such lists - start at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_collective_nouns
and proceed from there.
Chris Bruce, logophile,
in Kiel, Germany
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