From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 22:56:24 MST
"Charles Hixson" <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> Wrote:
> Is "regulate their economy" a part of your definition of Socialism?
You really have a thing with definitions don't you?
> You learned what an apple was by examining a large number of
>instances of the class and extracting what seemed to you to be
>the common features.
Exactly, it's the way we learn language too. I'll never learn French if all
you do is give me definitions of French words using other French words,
you might as well be making bird calls for all the good it would do me.
>But this requires a large number of instances, not a single instance.
Yes, that's why it takes so long to learn a new language.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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