[B-Greek] LOGIZOMAI as a process (BDAG2)

Kimmo Huovila kimmo.huovila at kolumbus.fi
Fri Jan 16 08:36:31 EST 2009


I do, but what I am suggesting is that even with the imperfective, there is an 
attempt at reaching a conclusion unlike with 'meditation' or a typical 
interpretation of Phil 4:8. Thus lexically the word would be an 
accomplishment in Vendlerian terms (or a state in another sense of the 
lexeme), not a process without an implied terminal point (not a Vendlerian 
activity). This is regardless of whether that implied terminal point is 
reached. In the imperfective it is not stated that it was reached (unless the 
sense is 'to be of some opinion', which would be a Vendlerian state).

Kimmo Huovila

On perjantai 16 tammikuu 2009, you wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Kimmo Huovila wrote:
> 
> > BDAG gives LOGIZOMAI the sense "to give careful thought to a matter,  
> > think
> > (about), consider, ponder, let one's mind dwell on" (2). I  
> > understand this to
> > refer to thinking as a process, not as the result. Many of the  
> > examples
> > referred to are examples of a result of thinking; some refer to a  
> > process of
> > trying to reach a conclusion; none that I found refers to meditation  
> > of any
> > kind.
> 
> Don't you think we ought to distinguish between LOGIZESQAI  
> (imperfective) and LOGISASQAI (perfective) in consideration of these  
> passages. Granted that the verb does mean quite fundamentally "think,"  
> it seems to me that the imperfective forms here must point to a  
> process of reasoning, whether valid or faulty, while the perfective  
> forms might more likely point to reaching a conclusion, coming to a  
> decision.
> 





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