Re: [jboske] RE: Llamban

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

pycyn@aol.com scripsit:

> One case that seems like the ones I have taken as bare conditionals but that 
> does not seem to work well, "I am a novelist" in the sense "I write novels." 
> Not writing novels does not (by itself) count against the claim, but 
> explaining the test has so far escaped me. 

I think this is a confusion. For me, "I am a novelist who doesn't write
novels" is a flat contradiction, right along with "I am a cook who doesn't
prepare food", "I am a painter who's never touched a brush", "I am an
illiterate reader", etc. etc.

Pace And, I don't know any way to become a lion-tamer without taming, or
participating in the taming, of at least one actual lion, any more than
one can become an automobile driver by reading a book.

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