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Comment author: [deleted] 18 May 2013 09:40:43PM 0 points [-]

[insert word here]

Informative?

Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 18 May 2013 10:27:43PM *  0 points [-]

See above discussion.

It's means: a statement which is true in our universe, but is not a tautology.

I guess we need a one syllable word for "statement which increases one's knowledge about the universe within which one exists". Thus "statements which are [insert word here] restrict the set of universes one is in" would be a tautology.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 May 2013 10:30:06PM 0 points [-]

Right, I was suggesting the word 'informative'.

Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 18 May 2013 10:35:24PM *  0 points [-]

Oh, sorry.

Yeah, there are a few candidates - "informative", "real", etc.

The trouble is that we are smashing through the layman's definition again. If we define "informative" as [insert word here], then we must also say that a calculus textbook is not at all informative.

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