Taka  +  539936 Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:45 PM We might except cloning to change our relationships. Bernard Williams discusses what it would be like to love someone just as an instance of a type rather than an individual person. He says, We can dimly see what this would be like. It would be like loving a work of art in some reproductive medium. One might start comparing, as it were, performance of the type; and wanting to be near the person one loved would be like wanting very much to hear some performance, even an indifferent one, of Mozart.   What exactly does the 'type' mean here? What do you think Mr. Williams is trying to say with his 'type' here? Taka Joined on Tue, Sep 7 2004 Japan Senior Member 2,625

	Grammar Geek  +  539941 Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:51 PM Perhaps, an archtype. You want a college-educated woman from a good family; you want a guy who can fix cars... not "Maria" or "Frank" Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,660 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	Marius Hancu  +  539952 Fri, 11 Jul 08 04:14 PM Also: category or:   -- type   b : one (as an object, a person, or a kind of entity) that possesses or exemplifies qualities of a higher category : MODEL, EXEMPLAR:  http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com ----  Marius Hancu Joined on Wed, Apr 26 2006 Veteran Member 11,673

	Grammar Geek  +  540586 Sun, 13 Jul 08 03:03 AM Cool. Can you fix cars? Grammar Geek

	khoff  +  540595 Sun, 13 Jul 08 03:34 AM We might except cloning to change our relationships. Shouldn't this be "expect"? khoff Joined on Sun, Mar 6 2005 Senior Member 3,267 Native speaker of American English (but not a grammar expert)