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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/26/2017 12:35 PM, Lieven wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:98f6e8ff-04fc-4d9e-20cb-4476e2add861@gmx.de"
type="cite">Would there be a difference between a stone falling
due to the wind moving it and my intentionally making it drop?</blockquote>
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<p>Unless you are intentionally personifying the wind and giving it
an objective of making the stone hit the ground, the restrictive
argument would say yes, there is a difference: if you dropped the
stone intending that its goal is the ground you could say <b>pumlI'</b>
(or <b>pumtaH</b>); if the stone fell off a cliff because of a
gust of wind, you could only say <b>pumtaH.<br>
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<p>The non-restrictive argument would say there is no difference:
the agent's intentions are not described by <b>-lI',</b> the
speaker is merely describing an action progressing toward a known
stopping point. A rock pushed off a cliff by a gust of wind could
be said to be <b>pumlI'</b> because it is making progress toward
the known stopping point of the ground.<br>
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