Hardening of the Categories
Bill Ross
wross at farmerstel.com
Sat Jun 6 19:15:18 EDT 1998
CLAYTON
>What we are suffering from is hardening of the categories.
>
>I am not suggesting that we create a new system of categories. Far from it.
I
>am suggesting that we throw out the system of categories altogether.
BILL
Defining any part of language is of a great, but ultimately limited, value.
Consulting a dictionary may or may not reveal the subtleties or the full
scope of usage you are encountering in "real life".
Consider what someone reading our mail 1998 years from now might make of
"hardening of the categories". They might amend their Koine English
dictionary meaning of "suffering" to include "9. experience technical
difficulties".
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