In a message dated 3/1/2002 2:56:38 PM Central Standard Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:>But is a mass of text a text? I would like to see an example. The mass of texts in my library is not obviously a text. What does it collaborate to do or have done to it that clearly marks it as a text? <>A mass of dogs is not a dog. Almost always not. A mass of one dog is a dog. No set of dogs is a dog.> Well, I agree to the second part and can at least make sense of the first part, though I think that the mass of a single dog is different from the dog itself -- and certainly from any other dog, so not a dog at all. <A is to abu as 1 is to pa.> Since that seems to be the question I'm asking, how are these critters related, this hardly helps any. I can can do circles on my own -- but can you all break out of yours? <>This seems to add a new wrinkle to an already confusing (if >not confused) situation, since capital letters have different letteral >words. Yes, but who uses those strange shifted letteral words? What are they for?> Well, you seem to use them in preference to the lower case ones at this point, for one thing. You just don't refer to them correctly. |