Mrs Prada, as she is known, is well aware that clothes cannot do this alone.
On one construal of what benefits this sort of semantics offers, modal fictionalism arguably cannot do as well as its realist rivals.
I'll speak to that role in a minute, but there's another dimension to this -- it's not simply a debate on what "we cannot do as well for ourselves".
One thing we cannot do very well is forecast the economy.
Another thing we cannot do very well is regulate financial institutions.
"Democratic politics is responsible politics, if [a government] cannot do it well, then we change it".
Mr. Buffett put it bluntly: "There's no question that we cannot do as well as in the past, and size does matter".
As Mr. Buffett put it, "There's no question that we cannot do as well as in the past, and size does matter".
(He didn't actually mention Whigs, obviously, but he did endorse the dictum of Lincoln, a onetime Whig stalwart, that "through government, we should do together what we cannot do as well for ourselves").
"The legitimate object of government," he was later to say, "is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot do so well, for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities".
