define_eprime

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   by define_eprime 14y ago

   Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach" explains this well in chapter 9 (Mumon and Gödel). I believe the argument goes that by calling it a specific thing you "oppose the reality" of all the other things it also is - no single name will ever su
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   by define_eprime 14y ago

   Shuzan held out his short staff and said, "If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?"
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   by define_eprime 14y ago

   At a former company (which has since gone out of business) I met some people who loved Evernote. One was an administrator who cheerfully kept confidential details about the security of our corporate network in it without once reading the Ev
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   by define_eprime 14y ago

   Whilst you are unavoidably picking up points on your CV with every project you complete and every line of code you write, you may not, and indeed probably are not actually getting any better. I think I understand the gist of what he's try
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   by define_eprime 14y ago

   Has anyone ever defined E-prime in E-prime? The wikipedia page doesn't offer one but I'd imagine it would have to be a series of prolog-like assertions about E-prime. You obviously can't just say "E-prime is ..."