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Invent Yourself scripsit: > If there are no emergent properties, then there is no difference between > le and lei. This is the case with substances. But to use lei would imply > that emergent properties exist and you are referring to them (as per my > above decree), so le is preferred and lei is meaningless for water. Why water? Water has gobs of emergent properties, like wetness, ripples, and surf. -- John Cowan jcowan@hidden.email www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."