On Feb 27, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote:
OscarMeyr wrote:
That is, in part, the idea. Saying "Zefram is an avocado" -- or
passing a proposal establishing "Goethe is a banana" -- or
transferring elements of a Rules-defined private property to
France -- does not automatically make it so.
But it might make it "so" in the interpretation of a body of law.
No contradiction: classifying ketchup as a vegetable does not
change a botanical designation but does change the way certain
statutes are
applied to school lunches.
Got cite? (On whether the ketchup/vegetable/school lunch thing
actually happened, or if it's a legislative urban legend.)
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Benjamin Schultz KE3OM
OscarMeyr
