On "Some Leftists" as a subject

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Nov 5 10:28:37 PST 2002


Anthony Kennerson wrote:
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My point was only that some leftists could use some openmindedness and education on the subject of [X]

And my point is and has been that for any possible value of X the above proposition is at best silly and trivial, at worst random belly-aching and intentionally divisive.

Sentences that begin "Some X is..." are usually tautological and silly, unless a specified narrow population (e.g., frequent posters to lbo) is denoted by X.

Carrol



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