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Re: DTD Notation raises a question

• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: Rod Davison <rdavison@s...>
• Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:18:22 -0400

Rod Davison wrote:


> In Linguistics, it is well known that true synonomy does not exist.  Given 
> two putative semantic synonyms (like "medial" and "middle") -- one can always 
> find a discourse pragmatic usage of one where the other would not be allowed 
> ("I am the middle child", *"I am the medial child.").


Counterexamples:

	He has Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease.
	He has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
	He has subacute spongiform encephalopathy.

These three terms may be substituted for one another in any context.

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