STL comments on 17 Rules to Make a Definition that Avoids the 37 Ways of Words Being Wrong - Less Wrong

15 Post author: mathnerd314 22 February 2014 05:16AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 February 2014 08:48:36PM 0 points [-]

Well done (although it is still a useful binary category; numbers are either prime or composite, semiprimes be damned).

Comment author: mathnerd314 22 February 2014 09:28:18PM 4 points [-]

Indeed, but one of Eliezer's points was that mathematical objects, e.g. the set of prime numbers, don't need labels. I can write without giving it a name at all, or just call it P.