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Date:      Mon, 27 May 2002 09:42:19 +0100
From:      George Reid <george.reid@oriel.oxford.ac.uk>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        pgreen <polytarp@m-net.arbornet.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Language in danger: Language loss
Message-ID:  <20020527094219.A53169@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CF1CD8C.C3262181@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:09:16PM -0700
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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:09:16PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:

> If you could provide a proof for Goedel's Theorem, it wouldn't
> be "Goedel's Theorem", it would be "Goedel's Law".

I can provide you with proofs for any number of theorems, none of which 
are generally referred to as "laws".  However, I have more important 
things to do than quibble over semantics.

-- 
George C A Reid                         Tel: (08701) 200870  Ext. 26654
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FreeBSD Committer/Developer             greid@FreeBSD.org
Oriel College, Oxford University        george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk

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