[PRL] How to know you know

[Dimitris Vardoulakis]

...and if the quality of writing is that bad, imagine what happens to
the quality of our words... (Here, I assume that in general people put
more thinking in their written communication than in their verbal
communication).

In the spirit of Vassilis's email, I'll also mention an ancient greek saying:
"Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense." or "Don't talk faster
than you think"
It is by Chilon of Sparta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilon_of_Sparta)

Dimitris

On Nov 28, 2007 5:24 PM, Greg Pettyjohn <gregp at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> "In the 9 out of 10 contexts where I use this statement, It is false."
>
> (and I'm not quite sure what it all means anymore!)
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Dave Herman wrote:
>
> > Hm. This suggests a probabilistic liar's paradox:
> >
> >      90% of this statement is false.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > Mitchell Wand wrote:
> > > On Nov 28, 2007 2:05 PM, William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu
> > > <mailto:will at ccs.neu.edu>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     Greg Pettyjohn wrote:
> > >      > OK then, I suppose that eventually you will discover that 90% of
> > >      > _what_you've_written_yourself_ is also bullshit.
> > >
> > >     Sure.  The problem is to figure out which 90%.
> > >
> > >     Will
> > >
> > >
> > > Exactly right.  And it is absolutely true that 90% of what you've
> > > written yourself is bullshit, at least at sufficiently long time scales.
> > >
> > > --Mitch
> > >
> > >
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