Vaniver comments on By Which It May Be Judged - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 11 December 2012 05:12:41AM 1 point [-]

I agree that someone could mean "splitting windfalls equally by weight" when they say "fair." I further submit that words can be ambiguous, and someone else could mean "splitting windfalls equally by desire" when they say "fair." In such a case, where the word seems to adding more heat than light, I would scrap it and go with the more precise phrases.