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To: RightWhale

hrmn.
first principles: does that word actually exist in any modern language?


1,592 posted on 08/05/2006 5:26:41 PM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: King Prout

Apparently not in contemporary American. It was a common word a century ago, usually in the form sciolist or sciolism.


1,594 posted on 08/05/2006 5:28:25 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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