Take for instance “one legged duck”, it has the same structure as “open faced sandwich” but most people would say it is in fact still a duck, even though ducks have two legs.
Yes, of course. I didn’t say anything that would contradict that, even by implication. I certainly wouldn’t claim that all concepts which might be described with the same very general syntactic structure behave in the way I described; that would be a rather bizarre claim, wouldn’t it?
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The dictionary definition is a good starting place, but rarely sufficient for how humans use language.
I made no reference to the dictionary definition of anything, though.
The point I was trying to make was that for instance in your open faced sandwich example, there are many people who would say it’s still obviously a sandwich, just like the duck is still a duck.
However, I realized I don’t know enough about the philosophy of language to meaningfully contribute to the discussion, so I’m going to bow out.
Yes, of course. I didn’t say anything that would contradict that, even by implication. I certainly wouldn’t claim that all concepts which might be described with the same very general syntactic structure behave in the way I described; that would be a rather bizarre claim, wouldn’t it?
EDIT:
I made no reference to the dictionary definition of anything, though.
The point I was trying to make was that for instance in your open faced sandwich example, there are many people who would say it’s still obviously a sandwich, just like the duck is still a duck.
However, I realized I don’t know enough about the philosophy of language to meaningfully contribute to the discussion, so I’m going to bow out.