On 5/12/06, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/12/06, Maxim Katcharov <maxim.katcharov@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/12/06, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > It's not something that comes up very often, so in my opinion it is not > > a good idea to waste a short expresion for it. > > But it is used a lot. Could you show an example from some actual usage? I did a Google search for "all bears" and none of the hits seemed to be about "all bears that ever existed or will ever exist, real or imaginary, toy or flesh and blood, in this world or in any other world, etc. etc."
I never said that I want to refer to "all bears" unconstrained by
anything, in fact I've stated that this would usually be the wrong
thing to do - but that shouldn't mean that one can't do it. No, the
utility of my inner {ro} is much more obvious when taken in the
context of the "all bears in the cage" example (which is an "actual"
example, and which you seem to have ignored), where the referant is
constrained by something more than "that which is a bear" (e.g. "that
which is a bear, and that which is in /that/ cage").
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