- Trotsky <TTrotsky_at_blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> FWIW, the Concise OED gives almost the exact
> opposite definitions for
> the two words that Julian does (it says an entity is
> any thing with
> discrete existence, while a being is any individual
> living thing), so I
> suspect it would be unwise to extend the definitions
> being used here beyond this particular discussion
:)
Ah. Not even for this particular discussion, in that
case. And I'm happy to note that that takes the
meaning of "entity" back to one I recognise and use in
other contexts.
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Received on Tue 04 Apr 2006 - 20:05:21 EEST