RE: [jboske] RE: I like chocolate

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

pc:
> -- this is largely covered by "I like chocolates"). Secondly, we 
> have to acknowledge that, in dealing with "like," we are dealing with 
> a word that is capable of bringing in reference to events that never 
> occur and even (apparently) objects that never exist. If possible, 
> this should not affect the solution to this issue in ways that make 
> it otherwise different from solutions about "chocolate" with 
> different types of verbs, nor solutions about "like" with different 
> types of objects. 

If so, this should be demonstrated by adducing various other examples
involving "chocolate" but not "like", in which "chocolate" means the
same.

> So, I like chocolate comes down to "if I were presented with a bit 
> chocolate, I would in a sufficient number of cases with a sufficient 
> variety of types of chocolate and types of circumstances, like the 
> bit of chocolate presented."

I wonder how that differs from "I would like chocolate", "I would
like fat-free chocolate (if it existed)".

--And.