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.