Peterdjones comments on Intuitions Aren't Shared That Way - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 29 November 2012 10:43:55PM 0 points [-]

And the empirical version of asking what a word means--examiining instances of usage, rather than introspecting -- can give3 us a useful start on that, eg. by showing that there a usages fall intio distinct clusters, so that there is not in fact one meaning.