Annoyance comments on Taboo "rationality," please. - Less Wrong

23 Post author: MBlume 15 March 2009 10:44PM

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Comment author: Annoyance 16 March 2009 07:36:38PM 2 points [-]

Okay, I'll accept that.

I offer a restatement: people can't communicate at a complex and abstract level unless their words are first defined in terms of words with already-accepted and -understood meanings.

If I begin to talk about gilxorfibbin without explaining what that is, it's unlikely the context will make it possible for you to know what I'm discussing.