From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:10 AM
To: alt.atheism.moderated
Subject: Re: Science & atheism are cultures.

"Jesse Nowells" <jnowells@transbay.net> wrote:

> I never said that there was a *necessary* non-synonymy between these two
> terms.

OK; then do you admit that there is no *demonstrable* non-synonymy
between these two terms in the domain of logical worlds?

> If you want to claim that they are necessarily equivalent in the domain of 
> logical worlds

I never claimed that, and I'm not even sure how an equivalence
between two terms could be shown to be "necessary" outside their
domain of definition.  How we apply words to new situation is
a matter of convention, not necessity.
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