Document comments on Rationality Quotes September 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Document 16 September 2013 05:59:03PM *  0 points [-]
Comment author: Vaniver 16 September 2013 07:02:29PM 3 points [-]

For each of those, the meaning of "it" is clear from context. If it weren't, then it would be uncommunicative writing.

Comment author: LM7805 23 September 2013 09:45:46PM 1 point [-]

All of these are dummy subjects. English does not allow a null anaphor in subject position; there are other languages that do. ("There", in that last clause, was also a dummy pronoun.)