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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Arbitrary
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 12:20:36 EDT
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> 	If an object is completely " unconstrained by direct external
> forces " , then it's movement is arbitrary. No, free does not mean
> arbitrary. Free is an adjective, and arbitrary is an adverb.
>  [JOHN WILLIAMS]

It wasn't enough to redefine words at whim a la Humpty Dumpty.  Now
they're out to arbitrarily (an adverb) redefine and reassign parts of
speech.

Are courses in English and communication prerequisite to a degree
in philosophy these days?  :-?????  (It's not as though this was
some stupid spelling error...)
-- 
"to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day
 to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human
 being can fight and never stop fighting."  - e. e. cummings
	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr