Substantive equality revisited: A reply to Sandra Fredman

Substantive thoughts about substantive thoughts: a reply to Galin.

In his commentary, David Galin raises several important issues that deserve to be addressed. In this response, I do three things. First, I briefly discuss the relation between the present work and the metaphoric theories of thought developed by cognitive lin- guists such as Lakoff and Johnson (1998). Second, I address some of the confusions that seem to have arisen about my use of the terms "su...

Equality, Revisited

In 1979 Yao published a paper that started the field of communication complexity and asked, in particular, what was the randomised complexity of the Equality function (EQ) in the Simultaneous Message Passing (SMP) model (for the question to be non-trivial, one must consider the setting of private randomness). The tight lower bound Ω( √ n) was given only in 1996 by Newman and Szegedy. In this wo...

Deep Equality Revisited

We revisit the notion of deep equality among objects in an ob ject database from a formal point of view We present three natural formalizations of deep equality one based on the in nite value trees associated with objects one based on the greatest xpoint of an oper ator on equivalence relations among objects and one based on indis tinguishability of objects using observations of atomic values r...

Reply to: The Furcal Nerve Revisited

They reported It is formed by ventral and dorsal rami of L1-L4 nerve roots with contribution from 12th thoracic nerve (i.e. subcostal nerve). After the anterior rami of the upper four lumbar nerves have supplied psoas and quadratus lumborum segmentally, they form the pleksus in the substance of psoas major.2,3 Juliana Farny et al. reported The lumbar plexus originated from the first four lumbar...

Aphasia revisited: A reply to Buckingham, Kertesz, and Marshall