Proverbs divides humans into the “wise and righteous” and the “fools and wicked.” We are indebted to Knut Heim for his cogent recognition that these word pairs are correlative terms—that is to say, they differ in their semantic domains (“skill” versus “ethics”) but refer to the same person and so are inseparable.65 For example, “Vice President of the US” and “President of the US Senate” are correlative terms since they do not belong to the
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