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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2241142" data-attributes="member: 18280">I have to be honest; I'm not quite sure that I follow your logic here.&nbsp; Say that we have two spells.&nbsp; In Spell 1, the spell works on items A and B, but it has different effects if cast on item A than it does if cast on item B.&nbsp; In spell 2, the spell states that it works on item A, and has specific effects if item A is damaged or if certain parts of item A are not present.Would this lead you to conclude that items A and B are the same or different?Now we add the complication that item B is a part of item A.Is an arm the same as a body?&nbsp; Is an intestinal tract a corpse?&nbsp; If not, why not?Or, another way to look at it:&nbsp; You have two spells, both of which work on item A, but both of which work differently if some particular part of parts of item A are missing.&nbsp; In the case of animate dead, the parts are the soft tissues.&nbsp; In the case of speak with dead, the part is the mouth.&nbsp; If skeleton is synonomous with corpse, why isn't mouth?RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 2241142, member: 18280"] I have to be honest; I'm not quite sure that I follow your logic here. Say that we have two spells. In Spell 1, the spell works on items A and B, but it has different effects if cast on item A than it does if cast on item B. In spell 2, the spell states that it works on item A, and has specific effects if item A is damaged or if certain parts of item A are not present. Would this lead you to conclude that items A and B are the same or different? Now we add the complication that item B is [I]a part[/I] of item A. Is an arm the same as a body? Is an intestinal tract a corpse? If not, why not? Or, another way to look at it: You have two spells, both of which work on item A, but both of which work differently if some particular part of parts of item A are missing. In the case of animate dead, the parts are the soft tissues. In the case of speak with dead, the part is the mouth. If skeleton is synonomous with corpse, why isn't mouth? RC [/QUOTE]

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