Re: The Copy Paradox

Wesley Schwein (schwein@pegasus.montclair.edu)
Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:16:55 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, John K Clark wrote:

> Absolutely, but "you" are not a few hundred pounds of protoplasm, you are the
> way matter reacts when it is organized in a specific complex way. You are not
> a noun, you are an adjective.

I'd say I'm a verb. Or maybe a preposition, which syntactically are
sometimes regarded as "crypto-verbs" because of the similar way they
govern objects.

"Converse"
"Create"
"Explore"
"Imagine"

"Between"
"Beyond"

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