Appositive case
Rudge: Function is easy. You are looking at the eye as if it were a telescope. The heart as if it were a pump. The organism as a product of design. Form? Well, perhaps Kant gives a clue. He talks about snowflakes, with their perfect hexagonal shapes-six equal, identical parts, radiating out from the center-as the perfect example of form. Perhaps we are looking at things, living things, as if they were crystals or some such thing. Always repeating. Perhaps like snowflakes, no two exactly the same. Formalists often point to the repetitions within organisms–the repeating backbone, the repeating parts in phyllotaxis, as well as repetitions across organisms. Snowflakes again.
Is "living things" the appositive of "things"?
I mean whether "living things" is used as appositively referring to "things".
Or is "and" left out between "things" and "living things"?
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Sometimes grammar shades into rhetoric, as here. This "things, living things" is an example of what some call conduplicatio [sic].
- Sometimes grammar shades into rhetoric, as here.
- This "things, living things" is an example of what some call conduplicatio [sic].
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Sometimes grammar shades into rhetoric, as here. This "things, living things" is an example of what some call conduplicatio [sic].
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The rhetorical style of writing exemplifies the subject matter.
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