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Zian comments on The Universal Medical Journal Article Error - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: PhilGoetz 29 April 2014 05:57PM

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Comment author: Zian 03 May 2014 05:47:20AM *  0 points [-]

It would've been very helpful if some sort of glossary or even a Wikipedia link was provided before diving into the use of the notational characters such as those used in "∀x !P(x)".

Although this post covers an important topic, the first few sentences almost lost me completely, even though I learned what all those characters meant at one time.

And, as LessWrong is rather enamored with statistics, consider that by writing P(x,y), the readers have an exactly 50% chance of getting the opposite meaning unless they have very good recall. :)