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Re: [jboske] "x1 is a Y for doing x2" (was: RE: Re: antiblotation (was: RE: taksi



And Rosta scripsit:

> Consider:
> 
>   This is a scheme for turning lead into gold.
>   This is a knife for cutting the foreskins off snails.
>   This is a spoon for ladling out any leftovers.
> 
> None of these entail that there is an event of lead turning into gold,
> that there is a snail's foreskin, or that there are any leftovers.

Ah, that was helpful.  I think the "FOR" is about capability rather than
intent, and I say that #2 cannot be true, because there is no knife
with the capability of cutting the foreskins off snails, since snails
have no foreskins.  Ditto #1.  As for #3, it should be paraphrased as
"I intend that this spoon be used to ladle leftovers".  

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