If 'cake' necessarily entailed icing
you wouldn't have chosen it as your example.
If no-one had any significant experience of cakes without icing, the word 'cake' would necessarily entail icing.
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Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 22:01,
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That's what I'm saying.
But doesn't that seem weird and wrong?
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Comma, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 22:04,
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No. Why?
Only because you choose something you know and then give it a "weird and wrong" definition.
If all blee consists of crawt and fleem, then blee without fleem is just crawt. Or fleemless blee.
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Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 22:07,
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