DanielLC comments on The Cluster Structure of Thingspace - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 February 2008 12:07AM

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Comment author: komponisto2 08 February 2008 01:33:59AM 2 points [-]

But if a definition works well enough in practice to point out the intended empirical cluster, objecting to it may justly be called "nitpicking".

You should probably put in a disclaimer excepting mathematics from this -- assuming that you agree it should be excepted. (That is, assuming you agree that "Aristotelian" precision -- what mathematicians call "rigor" -- is appropriate in mathematics.)

Comment author: DanielLC 12 January 2012 06:56:24PM 8 points [-]

"Definition" has a different definition in math.