George_Weinberg2 comments on Feel the Meaning - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 February 2008 01:01AM

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Comment author: George_Weinberg2 13 February 2008 07:08:55PM 3 points [-]

It would certainly facilitate communication, though, if people could agree on what words mean rather than having personal definitions. No doubt it's unrealistic to expect everyone to agree on precisely where the boundary between yellow and orange lies, but tigers aren't even a yellowish orange.