X-Message-Number: 20997 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 22:48:08 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: "Continuer" is important [From Thomas Donaldson:] >If it matters to you, you need not define >the relation between A, B, and C as that of continuer, but as >that of having characteristics historically related to one >another. B and A and C and A are both historically related, but >then (like Canada and Australia) B and C are also historically >related. No, this won't do. "Continuer" is how "I" survive. In the example I considered, B and C were continuers of A but not of each other. A survives in (or through) B or C but B does not survive in C nor C in B. An important distinction from my point of view, even if complicated by certain other problems such as forgetting or other changes that occur over time. Mike Perry [not Peters] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20997