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"By himself" = physical isolation "alone" = societal, emotional, or other abstract isolation
by sthatipamala 13y ago
"By himself" = physical isolation
"alone" = societal, emotional, or other abstract isolation
- graeme 13y agoYou could interchange these definitions, and they would be correct. English has a lot of word pairs where you can say "This is not X, it is Y", where the statement would work in reverse. Both alone and 'by himself' have both physical and moral meanings.
- sthatipamala 13y agoPossibly. I'm just inferring the GP's distinction of the terms from context.