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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CS.UCHICAGO.EDU!SAMANT
  3. Return-Path: <samant@cs.uchicago.edu>
  4. Message-ID: <9301240548.AA21609@tartarus.uchicago.edu>
  5. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  6. Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:48:13 CST
  7. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  8. From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
  9. Subject:      Re: Shark
  10. Lines: 10
  11.  
  12. >>Suppose they all did originate
  13. >>in Shakespeare's mind/imagination. Can 'we' not say they were born
  14. >>out of nothing?
  15. >
  16. >Shakespeare's brain is not nothing.
  17.  
  18. Can someone write up an understandable summary of this exchange? What
  19. is the information content of the sentence "words come from somewhere"?
  20.  
  21. tushar
  22.