 says the
&gt; same thing (of course it should say the same thing).
&gt; 
&gt; 2.  I understood that a part of your argument was that n-adic
&gt;     relations could ALWAYS be "decomposed" into triadic relations,
&gt;     but not necessarily to binary relations.

Yes, that is correct.  But people are responsible only for what
they actually say.  And the way that I and my whole army uses
the terms "composition" and "decomposition" is criterial to
the claim being made.  It is only that a set of folks who
have