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solipsist comments on SciAm article about rationality corresponding only weakly with IQ - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: solipsist 29 December 2014 05:09:30AM -1 points [-]

Assuming the only states are married and unmarried. I'm not sure if I would call a widow unmarried, in the same way I'm not sure if I would call a man with a surgically reattached foreskin uncircumcised.

Comment author: gjm 29 December 2014 03:08:35PM 3 points [-]

Sure. (I think it's pretty obvious in the "puzzle" context that you're supposed to take "married" and "unmarried" as exhausting the possibilities, though.)

Comment author: buybuydandavis 30 December 2014 09:16:07PM *  1 point [-]

I'd call a widow unmarried if she wasn't currently married.

I suppose the language usage might get complicated.

Is she still a widow, in the present tense, after she has remarried? Looking at a few definitions, it appears so, but the archtype of widow is one who has yet to remarry.

Comment author: ChristianKl 30 December 2014 10:52:53PM 0 points [-]

Marriages vows are "Till Death Do Us Part".

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