[Corpora-List] What is corpora and what is not?

[Laurence Anthony]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Patrick Juola <juola at mathcs.duq.edu> wrote:
> Actually, that's a pretty good illustration of why definitions are
> unimportant and why this whole discussion is rather silly.

You say "definitions are unimportant" and this discussion is "silly".

Hmm, many people have contributed. Are we all just being silly? I'm not sure.

> There's a reason that scientists don't define the meanings of most of
> the broad terms they use.  It wastes time on unproductive inquiry.

Can you give me an example of one of the "broad terms" that a
scientist (e.g. physicist) uses which is not defined?

Laurence.

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