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Old 08-25-2012, 04:05 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
That's a great way to say it. Classic is a poor label as it doesn't actually have a proper definition. You can define some, but not all and when you define the ones you could not define, the ones you defined are no longer defined.
What you are really saying is that a definition of "classic" is not a good definition unless it includes all the books you believe are "classics", and excludes all those you don't consider "classics".

I agree with you in principle, because from now on it means that the expression "greatest football team of all time" means Geelong and only Geelong.

Perhaps we could come to some arrangement where we divide all of the world's adjectives 50/50, so that I get to define half of them, and you the other half.
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