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To the extent that you can hold a heart in your hand, it differs from the mind and the soul (assuming that mind does not equal brain). So you wish to talk about "heart" in the abstract. The soul seems to be an intangible concept by definition. The mind means different things to...

Anonymous wrote: What is different between "some" and "a few" when referring to countable nouns? Nothing. Both mean "a small number of", although only "few" = "small" by definition. ( some can be used for both countable & uncountable - I guess you knew that!) e.g. I have...

Again OED. superiority 4. a. The quality or condition of being higher, greater, or better in some respect, or of having some attribute in a higher degree, than something else. Const. to, over, above. (1694 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 335) Captain Keggins said to have differed with the Dutch...