Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgment on CFJ 3541

2017-07-24 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, grok (caleb vines) wrote: > >> There is some ambiguity of what, exactly, a nickel is. Common >> knowledge tells us it is a metal, but one would rarely refer to an >> amount of nickel as "a nickel" without qualification--

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgment on CFJ 3541

2017-07-20 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, grok (caleb vines) wrote: There is some ambiguity of what, exactly, a nickel is. Common knowledge tells us it is a metal, but one would rarely refer to an amount of nickel as "a nickel" without qualification--a lump of nickel, or a vein, or an atom. Nickel is ultimately an a