Statements and state

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Published on 2010-05-13T16:06:11Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 16:14 UTC
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Is there any deeper meaning in the fact that the word "statement" starts with the word "state", or is that just a curious coincidence? Note that english is not my native language, so the answer might be obvious to you, but not me ;)

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