Sadly I cannot recall what combination of posts swayed me, but I now
appear to have a firm conviction that a 'chronological list of
presidents' makes no semantic sense outside of informal description. To
my eyes, one may have a 'set of presidents' and a 'list of
presidencies' (or an ordered set of presidencies if one prefers). I
would love to see some formal presentation of this standpoint, and I
would be suprised if it didn't exist, in some text, somewhere.
Received on Sun May 21 2006 - 19:48:02 CDT
