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>From: dlh@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Dominik Lukes)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Grounding and Symbols
Message-ID: <9475@scott.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 24 May 92 12:56:11 GMT
References: <1992May20.170019.26095@kbsw1> <1992May20.181548.7296@cs.ucf.edu> <594@trwacs.fp.trw.com> <1992May21.193329.37003@spss.com>
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In article <1992May21.193329.37003@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>In article <594@trwacs.fp.trw.com> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
>>Grounding depends on your language. In Russian, bachelor is kholostyak,
>>which means "hairless one" or eunuch.
>       ^^^^^
>I assume you mean "derives from"?  If kholostyak simply means eunuch, then
>it doesn't mean bachelor.
>
>But if it does mean bachelor, that supports my point that "bachelor" does
>not (simply) derive from "unmarried" + "male".  It refers to a real-world
>class of people, which English and Russian have chosen to characterize in
>different ways.  (Etymologically "bachelor" seems to mean something like
>"dependent farmer", if I can trust my dictionary.)

The term BACHELOR is rather culture specific, so while in some
societies it may denote mighty men, in some other it equates the
person with useless eunuch. It also depends on the social status of
the person, I think that in can be find in the Fillmore's presentation
that talking about e.g. Pope as a bachelor is not appropriate.

Yours sincere & faithfull,
Dominik.
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It's goOd spelling bUt it wobbles       
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