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Re: Preventatives

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 23:06
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From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>

> > Causatives with animate arguments also often carry a notion of intent, > > as in the distinction between kill and murder -- and that between > > "kill" and "cause to die". This seems a natural implication to me, and > > may be hard to avoid in any language spoken by humans. > > I don't see it. If I am driving and run over you by accident, I killed > you *and* I caused your death, but I certainly didn't murder you. > Murder requires intent, but killing does not.
Agreed. A very important legal distinction, by the way, in determining "cause of death." Sally