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Re: [lojban] word for "www" (was: Archive location.)
> * book (container of a copy of a work, possibly multiple volumes),
> x1 is a book containing work x2 by author x3 for audience x4
> preserved in medium x5
> /:/ [x1 is a manifestation/container [a physical object or its
> analogue] of a work/content, not necessarily using paper (=
> selpapri)]
> /:/
> /=/ cukta (cku)
pycyn@aol.com wrote:
...
Clearly there is no sensible restriction involved in the notion
"work" either. [like `author', `work' may be plural]
Ah.... I think of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, The Norton Anthology
of English Literature, and the Bible each as being single works,
although each has multiple authors.
To me, a `work' is what is `put together', to be offered to the
public. An editor puts a `work' together, perhaps with guidance from
tradition (such as the guidance that specifies which parts of the
corpus constitute the Bible in a particular religious tradition).
Hence, that which constitutes an instance of a veridical book must be
a singular `work'.
(I know ... or at least, I can guess ... that you are going to remind
me that that which constitutes an instance of a veridical `dog' may be
of a `two headed dog'. But such a step takes us beyond the basic
notion of `dog' into the cognitive linguistic territory that Lakoff
discusses, such as `exemplar definitions' and `prototype definitions'.
Lakoff's ideas are far beyond the current issue.)
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