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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

if sth is anything

Hi Friends,
I have problem with the first part of this sentence:

If equality is anything, it is a logic.

I can't understand the meaning of the phrase "if (sth) is anything"
can you help me?
  

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' If equality is anything, it is a logic = Equality is basically/certainly/fundamentally a logic.

— Mister Micawber

  • ' If equality is anything, it is a logic = Equality is basically/certainly/fundamentally a logic.
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Anonymous "if (sth) is anything"
This means that 'sth certainly/fundamentally is...'

If equality is anything, it is a logic = Equality is basically/certainly/fundamentally a logic.
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Roughly:
If we choose one word to define equality, then that word would be "logic."

[cross-posted with Mister Micawber]
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