Re: From here to eternity [was: *y-n,W- "subordinate"?]

On 2008-11-21 09:51, Arnaud Fournet wrote:

> Ok
> then let us rephrase the situation this way :
> They had two words "mortal" (for themselves) and "immortal" (for gods)
> They lived very short lifes
> for that reason the word "life" could not become "eternity"
> because "eternity" is precisely an attribute of the gods,
> who they were not.
>
> Is that clearer this way ?

What's clear is that if you use an aprioristic argument to show that
something cannot have taken place and the evidence shows otherwise, you
need to rethink your argument.

Piotr