>Hi Hilmar,
>
>I would say the definitions about magnetism are a bit over simplified. <vbg>
I would say that you can, indeed, find this kind of definitions, when the lexicographers weren't careful enough. Probably this is more or less what Ambroise Bierce meant.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
