If a wine-lover is called an oenophile, what’s a river enthusiast? It’s not a word you see very often. Cambridge University Press will tell you a “potamophile” mayfly prefers “slow-current lowland waters.” Sounds about right for the Eastern Shore. And so potamophiles are in luck, with two celebrations of the rivers defining the county’s borders in one weekend.
The theories of Kripke ( 1980 ), Soames ( 2003 ), and the proposal of Devitt and Sterelny, among others, take a stand on how the indexicality of natural kind terms is implemented.
As I have stated, New Hall worked at a time of great social change: nothing shows this more than the composition of the teasets and the style of decoration on them. During the first decade, a teaset was still very much the prerequisite of the lady’s drawing-room and its ritual. Thus we find that many of the teasets, in particular the gilded ones, had a tea-caddy (Plate 99) and a spoon-tray (Plate 106).
