![]() ![]() Suppose your child says "My friend Sally's dog died," and you reply, "Yes, it is sad." Who or what is being "sad"? Sally may be sad, but your comment isn't really about Sally. That the pleonastic "it" is actually an ineliminable quirk of our Vicinity," but it's quite possible that a close analysis would reveal When I last discussed them I think we broadly assumed that aĬorrect paraphrase was something like "there is rain in this I don't know if any philosophers have spent significant amount of timeĪttempting to argue what the proper truth-makers for these sentencesĪre. ![]() We do unconsciously, and the "reason" is inferred by linguists on the ![]() That this is a conscious process, rather, it's the sort of thing that (EDIT: I should note that I don't mean to imply Inserted into the sentence so that it will fit the proper syntactic It's own, for example, is ungrammatical, so a "dummy pronoun" is Resources to express claims that do not have a subject. ![]() They're inserted because English (and many other languages!) lacks the As the Wiki notes, pleonastic pronouns are generallyĬonsidered to be "empty" they have no reference whatsoever. Philosophers), and a bunch of the responses in this thread are totalĪnyway, the "it" in "it is raining" is pleonastic (the wikipedia This is a perfectly good question (albeit one not dealt with much by ![]()
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