• @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    11 year ago

    Crisis should be crises, plural. I believe this is an example of faulty parallelism.

      • @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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        11 year ago

        Nope.

        Right now the list reads plural, plural, and singular. Parallelism states that all words in a list should have the same form. So they should all be plural, or all singular.

        • @TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          While that is true, it also means various types of alterations in consciousness and paradigm shifts, but there is really only one type of existential crisis.

          • @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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            11 year ago

            Well I don’t really agree with that and I also don’t think it’s a solution to faulty parallelism.

            • @TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world
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              01 year ago

              There are multiple types of crises, but every existential crisis is an existential crisis. The plurality is negated by the modifier, “existential.”

              • @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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                01 year ago

                Not really. A midlife crisis and a psychotic episode could both be called existential crises. I don’t think there’s a hard definition to it like you seem to be asserting.