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Twenty years of Not Even Wrong, an anniversary blog post.

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On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 8:48 AM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote:

> [...]
> And "unusual" is even worse. Both tokens require one to describe the
> context, domain, or universe within which the discussion is happening. If
> you don't define your context, then the "definitions" you provide for the
> components of that context are not even wrong; they're nonsense. "Unusual"
> implies a usual. And a usual implies a perspective ... a mechanism of
> action for your sampling technique. So "unusual" presents even more of a
> linguistic *burden* than "unique".
> [...[
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