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]

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