On 22/01/2008, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
Trial balloon: I propose we redefine N as Importance. At least the term has possible non-circular meaning.
Notability is never circular; only the definition *seems* to be, but that's an illusion, because we all know in practice it isn't, you can't become notable by defining yourself to be so, other people have to assert it of you and your opinions, and the same applies to them.
If you want to be technical about it, it's a directed graph.
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG