o quickly.
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&gt; &gt; &gt; MW:  Perhaps just a tad.  What I mean is that ?e stands for the
&gt; &gt; &gt;      same real world thing as the n-tuple.  I would be reluctant
&gt; &gt; &gt;      to draw from that that the ?e was an n-tuple.
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&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; Second, I was interested in the general idea behind
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; Matthew's attempt -- as a piece of *ontology* -- to
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; flesh out certain relations in terms of the occurrence
&gt; &g