Jiro comments on Boring Advice Repository - Less Wrong

56 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 March 2013 04:33AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (557)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Jiro 25 February 2015 04:25:38PM -1 points [-]

If cooking means heating food up until it is safe to eat, I couldn't cook carrots or apples.

I would suggest that a word can mean different things in different contexts, and especially, a more general meaning and a more specific meaning. Saying that meringues aren't cooking is a use of the more specific meaning.