[Ads-l] words connected to a single provenance

[Laurence Horn]

> On Aug 28, 2018, at 10:19 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Uncertainty maybe in the Heisenbergian sense, but surely not in the
> pre-existing sense(s)
> (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncertainty)
> 
> 1 : the quality or state of being uncertain : doubt
> 2 : something that is uncertain

True, but not that different from relativity in this respect, or some of the other words that have old general senses and new single-provenance technical ones.


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> Mark Mandel, certain of his own name
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> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 9:26 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 28, 2018, at 4:53 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at DUKE.EDU> wrote:
>>> 
>>> relativity
>>> 
>>> Stephen
>> 
>> I’ll call your relativity and raise you (also translated from the German)
>> uncertainty, via Heisenberg (not the one played by Bryan Cranston)
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