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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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To: unspun
Of course Webster's definition in part is the same as the use of the term in philosophy. But Webster's doesn't specify the distinction between creation in the loose sense and creation ex nihilo.

Why be humble? This is the internet.

475 posted on 02/17/2003 4:54:05 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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