Well, of course sentences like “A is B” aren’t assertions of synonymy as such. I may say to a hapless waiter who has forgotten who ordered what, “No, I’m the beef stroganoff” without meaning that I am equivalent to a pasta dish.
John Cowan: Right, “A is B” sentences don’t necessarily assert equivalence. But the one I wrote about did.
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Well, of course sentences like “A is B” aren’t assertions of synonymy as such. I may say to a hapless waiter who has forgotten who ordered what, “No, I’m the beef stroganoff” without meaning that I am equivalent to a pasta dish.
John Cowan: Right, “A is B” sentences don’t necessarily assert equivalence. But the one I wrote about did.