[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bent C Dalager) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bent C Dalager) writes: >> >>Not as much "been" liberated, but "turned" liberated. > > I expect that either way you split this hair, using "free" in the > sense of "possessing liberty" is still going to be quite reasonable. > >>But picking just a single word from a whole explanation of _one_ >>naming and declaring it as equivalent is not really being careful with >>language at all. > > I have never claimed equivalence. What I have made claims about are > the properties of one of the meanings of a word. Specifically, my > claim is that "free" is a reasonable description of some one or some > thing that has been "liberated".
But it suggests that the natural state would be the unfree state. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
