From: rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Date: 25 Oct 1996 11:38:11 -0500
Organization: Northern Illinois University

In <846241304snz@longley.demon.co.uk> David@longley.demon.co.uk (David Longley) writes:

>All of these discussions are, at root, a fundamental disagreement 
>on  the  nature  of "meanings" and whether  one  *can*  say  that 
>two statements "*mean* the same thing".

Of course we can say that two statements "mean the same thing."
People often say this sort of thing.  And if people do say this,
clearly one can say this.  The mistake would be to confuse "mean the
same thing" with logical identity.