On June 20, 2017 6:14:49 PM PDT, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > >[NST==>I assume you would agree that “unmarried because unmarried” is >perniciously circular. Right? Just checking. <==nst]
Vapid, yes. Shallow, yes. Perhaps even vicious. But it's a little too empty, too obviously tautological to be pernicious. >[NST==>I suppose that one could argue that any time one writes a >sentence of the form, A is a B, one has launched into metaphor. <==nst] I disagree, obviously. There are plenty of nonmetaphorical is-a relationships. E.g. a dog is a mammal. E is a letter in the alphabet. Etc. -- ⛧glen⛧ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
