A is not B like C

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In the structure 'A is not B like C', is C B or not B?

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BarbaraPA · Answer

I don't understand your B C question.

Can you explain what you're asking a different way?

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Are Hegel and Kant fully academic or not?

BarbaraPA · Answer

Yes.
It could read "as Hegel and Kant are."

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Doe the same meaning go for every sentence of this structure?

BarbaraPA · Answer

That's how I would read it, without other context.

Note that if it had been reversed and had read "Like Hegel and Kant, he was not fully academic" it would mean they were all alike, and none of them were "academic."

A is not B like C

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