Caledonian2 comments on 37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong - All

72 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 March 2008 05:09AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 06 March 2008 11:53:14PM -1 points [-]

it was useful to have a word for something with traits A and B if (A correlates with B) OR (A,B correlates with something else, C)

It's useful to have a word for such a thing even if we can predict nothing more from A and B.