Re: Missing the sky

Muke Tever wrote:
>
>From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
> > >It would help me a little if someone could supply a sentence where,
>say,
> > >that border on the French flag is the agent or patient of a verb.
> >
> > "Said border separates the blue from the white."
>
>Not a very meaningful sentence though, I imagine... it's kind of an odd
>fiction
>anyway[1], since nothing *does* separate the blue from the white--they are
>contiguous.
>
Well, more real than the border between, say, China and Russia - which you
can't even see*, but nonetheless quite important from a practical point of
view. But our brains seem to be wired differently when it comes to
mathematical lines, points etc.

*Sure, you can see the Amur River, but the river isn't the border, the
border just happens to lie in the river.

                                          Andreas

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