springing a leak

[Victor Steinbok]

  Dan is right, but there is more. It was certainly not the /whole/
point of the post--most of the attention was intended to object
deletion, but, yes, there was a question of resulting underdeterminacy.

     VS-)

On 7/15/2010 10:44 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
> Oh, no disagreement there! But as I read just the headline in your original
> post, which contained no more of the story, those were the interpretations
> that occurred to me. Isn't the whole point of these posts that headlines(e)
> can be very misleading and confusing in their drive to elmnt unnesscr elmnts
> f wrtn lng?
>
> m a m
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Dan Goncharoff<thegonch at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Yet the first sentence of the article shows both 1) and 2) are wrong.
>>
>> DanG
>>

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