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>From: orourke@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
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In article <6417@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:

>For instance, the only answer to Putnam's "cats and cherries"
>I've seen from the anti-CR side is the statament that Putnam's
>theorem is a triviality of model theory.

	Could you recapitulate the relevance of Putnam's c&c theorem
to this debate?


