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Vocabulary

The logic intrinsic meaning of "interest"

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[interest]
  1. (text)Sport doesn’t hold much interest for my family.
[the logic intrinsic meaning of “for” and “interest”]:
(rephrased)Sport doesn’t hold much force towards my family, that causes someone to pay / give attention.
  1. (text)That’s of no interest to me.
[the logic intrinsic meaning of “is of”, “to”]:
(rephrased)That identifies no interest towards me. = In that I am not interested.
  1. (text) Can I interest you in this book?
[the logic intrinsic meaning of “in”]:
(rephrased) Can this book be of the thing in which I interest you?

The logic intrinsic way could I have used instead of text?
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