buybuydandavis comments on SciAm article about rationality corresponding only weakly with IQ - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 30 December 2014 09:16:07PM *  1 point [-]

I'd call a widow unmarried if she wasn't currently married.

I suppose the language usage might get complicated.

Is she still a widow, in the present tense, after she has remarried? Looking at a few definitions, it appears so, but the archtype of widow is one who has yet to remarry.