Georges Elencwajg's Profile

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  • Your text was ambiguous,
    which is bad, and after the change it will be less bad. What makes me satisfied with the more positive result?
    More unambiguous is compliment: Your text already was unambiguous and the change will make it even better.

    This is a general phenomenon which I, as a mathematician, find quite amusing: logically equivalent sentences are perceived as quite different emotionally according to the formulation used.

    If you don’t believe in me, why can’t you? Where does your friend the boxer in the story say he is intelligent and less stupid than his cousin? With

    both
    languages and logic one could claim that the answer “2+2 = 5” is unambiguous but that the answer “No!” is unambiguous by default. is more unambiguous.

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  • Your text was ambiguous,
    which is bad, and after the change it will be less bad. What makes me satisfied with the more positive result?
    More unambiguous is compliment: Your text already was unambiguous and the change will make it even better.

    This is a general phenomenon which I, as a mathematician, find quite amusing: logically equivalent sentences are perceived as quite different emotionally according to the formulation used.

    If you don’t believe in me, why can’t you? Where does your friend the boxer in the story say he is intelligent and less stupid than his cousin? With

    both
    languages and logic one could claim that the answer “2+2 = 5” is unambiguous but that the answer “No!” is unambiguous by default. is more unambiguous.

    • 656772 views
    • 199 answers
    • 242318 votes
  • Your text was ambiguous,
    which is bad, and after the change it will be less bad. What makes me satisfied with the more positive result?
    More unambiguous is compliment: Your text already was unambiguous and the change will make it even better.

    This is a general phenomenon which I, as a mathematician, find quite amusing: logically equivalent sentences are perceived as quite different emotionally according to the formulation used.

    If you don’t believe in me, why can’t you? Where does your friend the boxer in the story say he is intelligent and less stupid than his cousin? With

    both
    languages and logic one could claim that the answer “2+2 = 5” is unambiguous but that the answer “No!” is unambiguous by default. is more unambiguous.

    • 656772 views
    • 199 answers
    • 242318 votes