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Re: A weighty subject


> When we say that weight is what "the scale says" we can be
> quite wrong,
> depending upon how the scale works.

Oh my! How can an arbitrary definition possibly be wrong? If one says
that, by the word "weight", one means "what a bathroom scale reads", that
is what is meant!!! How can that be "wrong"? Another may not like the
usage, but it is not "wrong".

Jim Green
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