We learn as children and, as though instinctively, continue to use in our speech
a natural generic form: the word «they.»
Not exact matches
To say with Buchler that all beings are
natural complexes (complexes, for short) is not to ascribe some
generic or universal
form of determinateness to them, but is rather to affirm that the conditions of being at all are ordinal.
In the
generic trees, oceans and skies, Butler imposes the most concocted of allusions (end shot of a movie) onto the most
natural of
forms, a subtle reminder of what we stand to lose in «the end.»