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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: Semantic Ether
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 Not only as an intermittent reader of this group, but also as
 a non-logician/non-mathematician, I cannot put this question
 in the form of quantifiers and categories which would indicate
 fluency in the MZ et al. debate.  HOWEVER, this qualitative
 query occurs to me:  Is MZ's position equivalent to postulating
 a kind of "semantic ether" analogous to the "ether" whose existence
 was disproved by the Michelson-Morley experiment?


