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Re: Subject/Object + Everyone/Someone

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, September 5, 2003, 9:13
Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:


> My logic lecturer pointed out that while 'Mary loves John' and 'John is
> loved by Mary' mean the same thing, 'everyone loves someone' and 'someone
> is loved by everyone' mean different things and so concluded that you
> can't apply 'subject' and 'object' to 'everyone' and 'someone'.
>
> Is that true? Then what would you call the everyone and someone? If not,
> what's happening?

Human language not being formal logic.

                                                 Andreas