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Words like "employee," "payee," and "detainee" support the generalization, crudely stated, that words with the ending -ee designate the person affected in the specified way by an action performed by someone else. ███ ████ ██████████ █████ ██ ██ █ ██████ ███████████████ ██ ████ ██ ████ ████ ██ ██ █████ █████ ████ ██ █████ ██ ██ ██████ ██ ██████████ ██ █████████ ████████ █████████████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ███ ██████ ███ ████████ ████████ ████ ███████ ████████ ████████ ███████ ███████ ███ █████████ ████████ ███ ████████ ██ █ ████ ████ ███ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ █████ ██ █ █████████ ████████████ ██ ██████ ██ ███ █████ ██ █████ ███ █████ ███████ ██████ ██ █████████
Summarize Argument
“Employee” refers to the person who gets employed. “Payee” refers to the person who gets paid. “Detainee” refers to the person who gets detained. Hence, the general rule seems to be that the suffix “-ee” denotes the person on the receiving end of someone else’s action. However, “absentee” refers to the person performing the action (the person who is absent), which appears to contradict this rule.
How to resolve this apparent discrepancy? One can distinguish between two-party transactions (such as getting paid, being employed, or being detained) versus single-party transactions (such as being absent). In two-party transactions, the general rule holds true: “-ee” does indeed refer to the person on the receiving end of the action.
Describe Method of Reasoning
A general rule is stated. A potential counterexample is introduced. A distinction is then made that shows why the counterexample does not actually violate the original rule.
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