Language Log: Most and Many
To continue the mostathon: when I said that most "licenses a default generalization," I meant to suggest that it has a kind of generic quality — you can't account for its use by assigning it a purely...
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Frank Rich, "Kiss This War Goodbye", NYT 7/31/2010, writing about the Pentagon Papers: Though the identity of The Times’s source wouldn’t eke out for several days, we knew the whistle-blower had to be...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Giving us the round down
Another problem of attributional abduction, this one from Josh Marshal, "So How'd it go?", TPM 7/31/2010: Our reporting duo gives us the round down of just what happened at today's pro-diversity...
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