[agere_contra]

It is true.

Declaring or affirming two things as equal is what the act of equation means.

Well; at least we've drilled down to the cause of the problem. You just didn't know what 'to equate' meant.

Back to work for me. Later guys.

[Fuzz]

“Declaring or affirming two things as equal is what the act of equation means.”

In mathematics, yes. In linguistics, not as precise as that. Equating one thing to another in the way we communicate is used more broadly to categorize, analogize or classify things or ideas through comparison. Equating lower taxes with higher revenue or equating higher spending with better results, for example.

[CMAC51]

It is true. Declaring or affirming two things as equal is what the act of equation means. Well; at least we've drilled down to the cause of the problem. You just didn't know what 'to equate' meant. Back to work for me. Later guys.

Sorry, you tried to sound smart and got it wrong. Equate does not mean indicating two things are equal. It means they are equivalent.

Equivalent only requires that the two items are equal for the property being compared not for all properties possessed by each item. Equivalent and equal are two separate distinct terms both in mathematical and logical equations.

[Fiji Hill]

Back to work for me. Later guys.

Why don't you respond to Fuzz and CMAC51? Is this another of your hit-and-run posts?