Annoyance comments on You can't believe in Bayes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Annoyance 09 June 2009 08:18:53PM -1 points [-]

natural language doesn't express anything precisely

Of course it can and does. People just don't care much about precision.

The problem lies in making the precision explicit. That's why various non-natural languages like the conventions of mathematics were generated.