timtyler comments on Probability Space & Aumann Agreement - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Wei_Dai 10 December 2009 09:57PM

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Comment author: timtyler 10 December 2009 11:57:59PM *  3 points [-]

Should people really adopt the "common knowledge" terminology? Surely that terminology is highly misleading and is responsible for many misunderstandings.

If people take common English words and give them an esoteric technical meaning that differs dramatically from a literal reading, then shouldn't they at least capitalise them?