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Jiro comments on Boring Advice Repository - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jiro 25 February 2015 04:25:38PM -1 points [-]

If cooking means heating food up until it is safe to eat, I couldn't cook carrots or apples.

I would suggest that a word can mean different things in different contexts, and especially, a more general meaning and a more specific meaning. Saying that meringues aren't cooking is a use of the more specific meaning.