komponisto comments on Mandatory Secret Identities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 30 September 2012 02:39:17AM 0 points [-]

psychiatry has no need for terms that fail to refer

At the risk of stating the obvious: I did not intend to restrict the terminological question to psychiatry specifically.

But in any event: you could say the same thing about zoology. And yet we still have the word unicorn.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 October 2012 06:33:38PM 3 points [-]

Unicorns were indeed once thought to have actually existed.