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LOR.  Discussion Note 22

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HC = Howard Callaway

HC: You quote the following passage from a prior posting of mine:

HC: What remains relatively unclear is why we should need a system of notation
    in which teridentity appears or is needed as against one in which it seems
    not to be needed -- since assertion of identity can be made for any number
    of terms in 