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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   junior-kun wrote:   
   > John W. Kennedy wrote:   
   >   
   >>> You're basically screaming "Use words the way they did in the   
   >>> seventeenth century!"  and I'm pretty much rolling my eyes.   
   >> No, I'm saying, "In discussing literature, or any other technical field,   
   >> use technical terminology as it is defined by professionals in that field."   
   >   
   > I'm much more interested in how people in the real world who   
   > participate in the modern cultural exchange actually use the term.   
      
   Ignorance is bliss. You can use "energy" to mean "what you get from   
   taking megavitamins", if you like, but physicists will just roll their   
   eyes and turn away.   
      
   > But you haven't even begun to convince me that modern professors use   
   > the term the way EXCLUSIVLY the way Lewis did.  He wrote that book in   
   > 1936, correct?   
      
   Lewis didn't invent the term; it's been around since classical times.   
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
   "But now is a new thing which is very old--   
   that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,   
   which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."   
      -- Charles Williams.  "Judgement at Chelmsford"   
      
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