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Likewise, when we say something like: "Juliet imagines that Romeo is standing beside her," we again attribute to our subject (Juliet) an attitude (imagination) towards a proposition (that Romeo is standing beside her).
When we say something like: "Macbeth believes that there is a dagger before him," we attribute to the subject (Macbeth) an attitude (belief) towards a proposition (that there is a dagger before him).
When we say something like, "Mommy will get really upset," we are in danger of teaching our kids to do something respectful, like being on-time, as a way to avoid a reaction.
There's some of that too.Every month when the new issue goes live we say something like, "now there are two ways to do this, you can go on a bender and spend the next couple of hours greedily devouring everything in the issue, or you can exercise a bit of self-restraint and read the articles as we dribble them out one by one on the home page over the next month".
If we say something like "halophilic archaea arose from within the methanogens with the importation of bacterial genes for respiration" we need to be very careful to note that methanogens that far back in time need not have had any specific genes or capacities other than a taxon-defining 16S rRNA.
To draw what I think is an apt analogy, we need to be similarly careful when we say something like "early English arose from several ancient Germanic languages" not to pretend that we would recognize it or any of those others if someone started speaking them to us on the street.
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In Russell's view, no discussion of the concept of distance could even contemplate that the distance from London to Paris is less than a metre we would know we were not talking about distance if we said something like that.
When asked why we believe that it is raining, we typically say something like "because the street is wet".
This is why we generally say something like "Lord Smith, the former Labour culture secretary", to avoid confusion with "Lord Smith, chair of the Green Investment Bank".
It is clear how we could say something like this about things existing merely by the force of convention, such as the objects traded on the stock market.
Compliment this person's abilities - in our example, we might say something like, "Could you please help me with my math homework?
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