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From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman)
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Subject: Re: A question?
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Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 00:00:26 EDT
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>  I have received the following question from some high school kids
>  (which I cannot understand).  Can someone answer it?
>  
>  	Can something alone be related to itself?

Any mathematician will tell you the answer is yes.  Consider the identity
relation on a singleton set.
-- 

Dave Seaman
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"Against people who give vent to their loquacity 
by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."