--- Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
wrote:
> The "action of collecting": what is it else
> than putting several things together ?
Keep in mind that the action starts with no
things together, and generally goes through
gathering one thing together. And the action may
be long ongoing before a second thing is in the
collection. This is one reason why number doesn't
have anything to do with the verb itself.
> That there will be
> any result or not does not change the meaning
> of the concept.
Quite! This is one thing I said.
> To start collecting and get nothing just
> means than you started the activity of
> collecting
> several things but it somehow failed.
Failure is a judgement outside of our scope.
> You don't start
> gathering, or collecting, with the aim of
> getting
> nothing, neither just one item.
The aim? I never said anything about an aim or a
goal! Only you assumed that there is an aim or a
goal - I'm saying that the _Action_ itself has no
aim and no number implicit.
Padraic.
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