In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bent C Dalager) writes:
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>Not as much "been" liberated, but "turned" liberated.
I expect that either way you split this hair, using "free" in the
sense of "possessing liberty" is still going to be quite reasonable.
>But picking just a single word from a whole explanation of _one_
>naming and declaring it as equivalent is not really being careful with
>language at all.
I have never claimed equivalence. What I have made claims about are
the properties of one of the meanings of a word. Specifically, my
claim is that "free" is a reasonable description of some one or some
thing that has been "liberated".
As an example, when a slave becomes a free man, this is not commonly
understood to mean that he now has a low or zero monetary cost.
>And even when using a Thesaurus, it should be clear that the offered
>alternatives are not supposed to or capable of capturing all nuances
>of the keyword.
I have never claimed to be providing a full definition of the word.
Indeed, I quite clearly conceded very early on that "free" is commonly
associated with what might otherwise be called "gratis" - that is
"free of charge".
My effort has been to point out that the word also has other meanings.
Cheers
Bent D
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