Re: The set of all JOKES.....

On Feb 24, 6:13 pm, "charlesweh...@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<charlesweh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It is an illusion. 'Itself' is a pronoun and is in the place of a
noun, and the noun is in this context precisely 'J'.

That is the joke. The word "itself" does not of itself NEED to be used
in place of a noun. It is not rigidly, and for all time, condemned to
be a pronoun. As a WORD, and nothing but a word, it is a NOUN.

Quite wrong. " "itself" " is a name for "itself" and thus a noun in
meta-language, but "itself" is not a noun. You can think of it as a
sequence of letters but then it is not noun either.

Regards

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