I John 3:2 and I John 2:28

clayton stirling bartholomew c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Fri Dec 17 04:09:20 EST 1999


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>From: Daniel L Christiansen <dlc at multnomah.edu>

> Perhaps this is quibbling, but it seems to me that just because a term falls
> within the temporal category, it is not thereby disqualified from also being
> in the conditional category.  In the sentence "When I am hungry, I eat," the
> "when" indicates the [temporal] conditions under which the action of eating
> takes place. In the same way, EAN may indicate a more general condition that
> implied by the English "if" or "since."


Daniel,

I don't think that is just a quibble. It looks to me like an explanation
of syntactical  polysemy which is a notion that I spend a fair amount of
time harping on, until people get tired of it.

Clay




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