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- From: ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria)
- Newsgroups: sci.classics,talk.philosophy.misc,sci.philosophy.meta
- Subject: Re: Eyes as Windows of the Soul
- Date: 30 Jul 1992 17:27:59 GMT
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- References: <1992Jul29.022611.14276@husc3.harvard.edu> <zqnmg7c@lynx.unm.edu>
- <1992Jul29.175808.14298@husc3.harvard.edu> <ARA.92Jul29231017@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
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- In-reply-to: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu's message of Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:10:17 GMT
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- In article <ARA.92Jul29231017@camelot.ai.mit.edu> ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
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- Why not write down the saying in Greek and then search for the usages of the
- Greek words.
-
- You probably want to do a search not on any particular formulation of
- the statement but rather a search for all sentences (or whatever the
- smallest unit is that your search can find) that contain any variant
- forms of the words for ``eyes'' and any variant forms of the words for
- ``mirror''. (By variant forms I mean both different dialect forms and
- different inflectional forms---since one might find references to the
- statement as well as alternate formulations of it.)
-
- For example,
-
- !!!
-
- there is a collection of classical Greek writings
- on a disk and one can search for occurences of words.
-
- This is the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, and is just the place to look.
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- -30-
- Bob
-