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From: sjs16@bton.ac (Simon John Shurville)
Subject: Re: Problem with mass-nouns in OOA/OOD/OOP
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In article <4a2khh$g3o@jacana.tusc.com.au>
Nigel McFarlane <nrm@tusc.com.au> writes:

> But does "fire" have any instances?  Perhaps it is instance of
> "abstract concept"?  How would you get an instance of "rabbit" when
> the meaning is from this context: "I'm going out to shoot rabbit?"

At last someone has guessed the true intent of the original poster: I
am working on a  GOFAI model of Elmer Fudd!

Seriously, this starts to strike at why one might care about such
issues. If the philosophers cared about their grants/purpose in the
larger community they would look at OOA/OOD/OOP/OOKR in a big way. Then
we would all be sunk ;-)

