Re: DIS: Re: BAK: [Fwd: Judgements]

2008-06-11 Thread ihope
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the King of America (a) a possible "it", (b) an entity? Answer to (a): "The King of America: who is it?" Answer to (b): sure, why not? It's a position that could possibly be filled, at the least. I agree to the following: {

DIS: Re: BAK: [Fwd: Judgements]

2008-06-10 Thread Ed Murphy
Ivan Hope wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:21 AM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1988: UNDETERMINED >> >> The dangling pronoun "it" is sufficiently vague to make this judgement >> appropriate. > > True, "it" can refer to anything at all, but what you're saying is > that for some possibl