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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Meta: LW Policy: When to prohibit Alice from replying to Bob's arguments? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 13 September 2012 08:55:44PM *  -1 points [-]

"Arbitrary" and "random" have similar meaning, but they have very different sense.

("Meaning" and "sense" have very similar meaning and sense to me.)

Comment author: thomblake 13 September 2012 09:04:26PM 1 point [-]

And so we see that I am a terrible communicator. I would blame the study of philosophy for introducing me to wonderful distinctions that no one else uses, though I'm sure a student of philosophy would tell me that "sense" and "reference" are the relevant subcategories of "meaning", and both of what I referred to above fall under "sense". Is Frege or C.S.Peirce in the house?

But seriously, fixed (I hope).

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