Power

Catherine Driscoll catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au
Sat Dec 7 04:53:05 PST 2002



> Is it possible that this discussion/debate has taken the form of:
>
> A. The ball is on the table.
>
> B. No, it's round.
>
> C. No, it's yellow.
>
> D. No, it's off the floor.
>
> E. No, it's soft.
>
> F. No, it's .....
>
> The word power has a number of radically different senses in different
> "domains," and those senses have no relationship. This discussion tends
> towards a Platonic goal of finding the real essence of every word.

I don't know, I thought something was at stake. It could be whether the ball's roundeness or yellowness is what matters right now, but I think it should be about how a ball can be used -- which is therefore how it should be understood.

Catherine



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