On Aug 8, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Michael Edmiston wrote:
I don't have a strong attachment to any of the names I have heard and
used.
Me too. I wrote that there is "no harm" in using the two terms but John
D. disagreed. Then the thread drifted to a different issue -- are the
two terms well known or not. That led to need for an operational
definition. How else can such controversies be resolved?
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