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To: unspun
Webster's is useless when one is using terms of art. Webster's documents the normal, non-technical meanings of words. In ontology, "to create" and "to procreate" are quite distinct concepts. No knowledgeable person pulls out the Webster's in a philosophical discussion, or a discussion of a legal term, etc.
472 posted on 02/17/2003 4:33:02 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
Webster's is useless when one is using terms of art. Webster's documents the normal, non-technical meanings of words. In ontology, "to create" and "to procreate" are quite distinct concepts. No knowledgeable person pulls out the Webster's in a philosophical discussion, or a discussion of a legal term, etc.

---chuckles---

And here I thought I knew something.

Funny, how a source so discredited by you as meaningless would agree with you, yet

Hint: humility is appealing.

473 posted on 02/17/2003 4:43:42 PM PST by unspun (Christ-informed, American constitutional republic: Yes. Libertarian & objectivist revisionism: No.)
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