Re: labels/original intent of post (Funes, the Memorious)

From: gregg biermann (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jul 02 2006 - 13:48:05 PDT


Mitsu wrote: "I mean, come on --- this is just obvious stuff. How can there be a debate
about what is common usage?"

"He was, let us not forget, almost incapable of general, platonic ideas.
It was not only difficult for him to understand that the generic term
dog embraced so many unlike specimens of differing sizes and different
forms; he was disturbed by the fact that a dog at three-fourteen (seen
in profile) should have the same name as the dog at three-fifteen (seen
from the front)."

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