What is the structure?
Hello my friends;
I have problem with this sentence:
Nor did he manage to ensure that the epistemic productivity sustainable by means of his mechanisms of tacit content production are capable of matching those which may be observed to hold in arithmetic.
for instance, I'd like to know that "are" in second line is referred to?
Can you explain the structure of this phrase in simple way? I can't get the meaning of sentence.
thanks.
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This is a highly abstruse sentence, but I do not see how "are" can be correct. As far as I can see, "are" should be "is". The overall structure is apparently "Nor did he manage to ensure that X are capable of Y".
- This is a highly abstruse sentence, but I do not see how "are" can be correct.
- As far as I can see, "are" should be "is".
- The overall structure is apparently "Nor did he manage to ensure that X are capable of Y".
- X = the epistemic productivity sustainable by means of his mechanisms of tacit content production Y = matching those which may be observed to hold in arithmetic.
- The noun phrase X is grammatically singular, so the verb should be "is".
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This is a highly abstruse sentence, but I do not see how "are" can be correct. As far as I can see, "are" should be "is". The overall structure is apparently "Nor did he manage to ensure that X are capable of Y".
X = the epistemic productivity sustainable by means of his mechanisms of tacit content production
Y = matching those which may be observed to hold in arithmetic.
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