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    For the record: It is true that "equality" is not an applicable
       term in this argument i.e. the phrase, 'men and women are not
       equal' is essentially true.  It is also true that one woman is
       not equal to another woman, or one man to another.   "Equal"
       means "exactly the same as".

    The word you are looking for (and evidently have not found) is
       "equivalent", which means "functionally the same as".
       For most purposes, men and women are _equivalent_.

     For more information, consult a math text dealing with
       equivalence classes and/or modular arithmetic.



       (For most purposes, I and a carrot are equivalent :>

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Kim Roper
Dept of Chem Eng, Queen's University
(Formerly a resident of the Math and Eng Dept.)

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