shminux comments on Model Combination and Adjustment - LessWrong

49 Post author: lukeprog 17 July 2013 08:31PM

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Comment author: shminux 20 August 2013 07:22:04PM *  0 points [-]

This is an example from mathematics where careful language is helpful in tracking background assumptions.

I wonder how the mathematicians speaking article-free languages deal with it, given that they lack a non-cumbersome linguistic construct to express this potential ambiguity.