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Robert LeChevalier scripsit:
> Then you need the event of a box being pulped for paper-making. The point
> is that when you need a generic of something, then you need it for some
> particular use, and therefore what you need is the potential event of it be
> used for that particular use.
Hmm. This formulation does seem to cover a lot of cases very neatly, and
introduces an abstraction. I cannot at the moment think of a counterexample;
I thought I had two ("John needs a wife", "John needs a cure for Ebola")
but those are both quite manageable as "la djan. nitcu lo nu da broda".
I like it.
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