If some one says "look, cat" I don't know what kind of cat they are refering to. I nevertheless can be confident that they have seen something feline.
--- Original Message --- From: "Jason Resch" <jasonre...@gmail.com> Sent: 10 July 2013 8:35 AM To: "Everything List" <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Hitch On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:33 PM, chris peck <chris_peck...@hotmail.com>wrote: > Why does that make the word less usefull? I think its a very useful > word. If someone tells me they are an atheist I then know that they do not > belive in God. > > But you don't know what God the atheist doesn't believe in. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
