Re: "What IS xxx?" "IS xxx a yyy?"

[Michael Brady]

On Sep 19, 2008, at 3:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's "at base"; since he's not a philosopher, the scientist is  
liable to
express his findings this way: "That substance IS the element gold."

No. At base, he'd allege that it is lead, but he has a philosopher's  
stone that can change it into gold.