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pycyn@hidden.email scripsit: > One case that seems like the ones I have taken as bare conditionals but that > does not seem to work well, "I am a novelist" in the sense "I write novels." > Not writing novels does not (by itself) count against the claim, but > explaining the test has so far escaped me. I think this is a confusion. For me, "I am a novelist who doesn't write novels" is a flat contradiction, right along with "I am a cook who doesn't prepare food", "I am a painter who's never touched a brush", "I am an illiterate reader", etc. etc. Pace And, I don't know any way to become a lion-tamer without taming, or participating in the taming, of at least one actual lion, any more than one can become an automobile driver by reading a book. -- "No, John. I want formats that are actually John Cowan useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that http://www.ccil.org/~cowan address all questions by piling on ridiculous http://www.reutershealth.com internal links in forms which are hideously jcowan@hidden.email over-complex." --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev