anaphora

Command and Conquer

“Obama Trusts Himself When All Men Doubt Him.”

Or so a news headline runs.

There may be doubts about Obama’s ability, but there is absolutely no doubt that both himself and him here refer to the same person, namely Obama. It is therefore bizarrely remarkable that we have to use two different words to denote the same concept. But on second thought, maybe they are not quite the same.

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