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Rod Davison wrote:
> In Linguistics, it is well known that true synonomy does not exist. Given
> two putative semantic synonyms (like "medial" and "middle") -- one can always
> find a discourse pragmatic usage of one where the other would not be allowed
> ("I am the middle child", *"I am the medial child.").
Counterexamples:
He has Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease.
He has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
He has subacute spongiform encephalopathy.
These three terms may be substituted for one another in any context.
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