no one is equating it... it is just that a word's definition is what the word means... if the academics seem to require it to mean instiutional and historical contexts because it needs to have all that baggage.... well that's why you posted #99.
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is the idea here, but you guys don't see it as such.
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