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To: Eastbound
Question: "...but more importanty, does a supreme court have the right or authority to re-define any noun that has been previously defined (both legally and socially) as a very specific and un-ambiguous thing."

Response: I think what they are doing is a form of Nominalism.

25 posted on 07/26/2003 3:57:11 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (Further, the statement assumed)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
"I think what they are doing is a form of Nominalism."

Yes, but isn't that an antithetical and destructive approach by those who define the law -- those who demand non-ambiguity in legal procedures and quick to trashcan any document that doesn't have all the 't's' crossed and 'i's' dotted or having un-defined phrases?

42 posted on 07/26/2003 8:21:07 PM PDT by Eastbound
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