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Re: "completeness" vs. "incompleteness", etc.
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"Dick Veit, UNCW English Dept." <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:35:35 -0500
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At 11:27 PM 3/24/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Just to add one more point to the "John is" construction.  One of the
>famous aphorisms in Western thought is:
>
>I think, therefore I am.
>
>I have no sense that "I am" is incomplete.
>
>Bob Yates


Yes, but in this case, "am" is not a linking verb.  It's being used
intrasitively, as a synonym for "exist" or "live."  Same with "To be, or
not to be."

Dick Veit

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