jmmcd comments on Being a teacher - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Swimmer963 14 March 2011 08:03PM

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Comment author: jmmcd 15 March 2011 06:44:10PM *  0 points [-]

The idea of non-transitivity sounds really interesting -- can you point to an explanation of the supposed rules?

Comment author: JoshuaZ 15 March 2011 07:36:51PM *  0 points [-]

This has a rough summary of the rules. If the rules are as hierarchical as they suggest then there aren't any non-transitive issues. But there are some adjectives that don't fall into those categories.