Re: Fourth Person
| From: | Christopher Palmer <reid@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 4, 1998, 20:44 |
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1p = speaker
2p = hearer
3p = anyone else
4p = no one really uses this; all possible objects of discourse are
covered by 1p, 2p and 3p
'one' = some entity, underspecified for everything except person = 3p
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"A virtue must be our own invention, our most necessary self-expression
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