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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:34:42 +0000
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On 02/02/2015 17:25, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'd like to see anybody define 'a' and 'the' without using 'a' and 'the'.
>> Would that be formally rigorous or rigorously formal?
>
> a: Indefinite article, used to represent individual objects not
> otherwise identifiable.
>
> the: Definite article, used to represent individual objects
> identifiable by context.
>
> Near enough?
>
> ChrisA
>

Nope.  'article' begins with 'a' so you can't use it to define itself.

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