Re: "Friendly Premises"

George Dance wrote:
> H. J. Sander Bruggink wrote:
> > I am pointing that, if the words 'bloem' and 'flower'
> > refer to the same things, then asserting "there is no
> > word 'bloem' in English" is equivalent to asserting
> > "there is no word 'flower' in English."
> >
> > Do you agree with this? :-)
>
> Well, yes, but [...]

Oops! Should have been, "Well, no, but..."

Once again we see the apparent power of writing to confuse and bewilder
my kind.






we weren't talking about words but concepts. The fact
> that an English-speaker doesn't use the word 'bloem' does not show that
> English-speakers have no such concept. In fact they do, even though
> they use a different word ('flower') for it.

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