Thankyou Gary - the attempt to find a perfect definiton of drawing has
involved some crazy logic.
However the notion that definitions shouldn't be flexible seems to suggest
that they should be inflexible. As Raymond Williams showed in Keywords,
language is in a state of flux, changing according to context, history and
use. I think that the flaw in this discussion is in the attempt to come
up with an absolute "improved" definiton of drawing that fits all uses!
Language doesn't work that way.
Jill
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