2007-02-09 16:52:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Sometimes.
2007-02-09 16:57:26 · answer #1 · answered by tranquility_base3@yahoo.com 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
(This may be a question best left to the philosophy area and not the psychology area.)
Merely saying that something is someone does not make it so. If I begin calling a rock a person, this does not change the nature of the rock itself in any way.
Furthermore, the question does not say "if someone believed..." but rather "if someone said...". This puts the focus on the act of speaking the words and not on the actual beliefs of the speaker. Merely uttering the word "someone" does not cause a transformation in anything.
2007-02-09 17:32:16 · answer #2 · answered by DavidGC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if the "said something" said something, would it be someone.
2007-02-09 19:47:21 · answer #3 · answered by Shona L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-02-09 18:24:22 · answer #4 · answered by Martin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure I follow your words. To understand it better I substituted words for someone and something. -- just another something
2007-02-09 17:07:09 · answer #5 · answered by Terry Z 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Something to us,
but someone to them.
2007-02-09 17:01:59 · answer #6 · answered by ♨ Wisper ► 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just another something! or is that someone?
2007-02-09 17:20:53 · answer #7 · answered by Cockneyrebel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if it was a full moon on the third of March in a Chinese year divisible by the number six.
2007-02-09 16:58:41 · answer #8 · answered by RedRay 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I bow to your superior word wrangling skills. I am not worth to write on your page (but I will).
2007-02-09 17:01:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If that was a question
then this is an answer
2007-02-10 09:06:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋