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pycyn@hidden.email scripsit:
> I think it would be odd to say that someone like chocolate tout court if he
> only liked it on his birthday cakes. I would then say "he likes chocolate
> birthday cakes but otherwise does not like chocolate."
Whereas I think chocolate birthday cakes are a species of chocolate, and
would find it felicitous to say "He likes chocolate" in those
circumstances. Insofar as it is not felicitous, it is because c.b.c.'s
are not prototypical for "chocolate" (to me, chocolate bars are
prototypical).
> Salt is, of course, precisely a case where there is a general rule,
Ah, I didn't understand what you meant by "general law".
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