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57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2007 11:49PM

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Comment author: Acad_Ronin 21 October 2007 03:27:27AM 2 points [-]

1) That's why Deidre (then Donald) McCloskey wrote in (I believe), "The Rhetoric of Economics" (JEL 1983), that, "If the reader says something is unclear, it is unclear." 2) The recent Rush Limbaugh imbroglio is consistent with the point about inferring meaning. The political leanings of the commentors guided their inerpretation of his words.