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From: markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
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Subject: Re: Classifying the Axiom of Choice
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Date: 2 Mar 88 03:16:56 GMT
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Summary: There's no truth, only semantics.

In article <1186@sjuvax.UUCP> jserembu@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Serembus) writes:
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>    Greg,
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>	How would you classify the following the following proposition:
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>	"Water is H2O."?

As a mere consequence of a convention concerning the naming of chemical
compounds.  It's all conventional.