I always took the central point about conflation to be
the unwitting
mixing
up of separate ideas - usually but not always to the mild confusion or
detriment of both.
FT2
Good research topic: What characteristics of ideas or facts lead to
conflation. To take a notorious example, when Sarah Palin was asked about
her foreign relations experience with respect to Russia, she replied that
you could see Russia from Alaska. But true conflation, as a menace to
discourse, includes much less easily distinguished concepts.
Fred
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
wrote:
And Larry Sanger and Magnus may be remembered for
popularizing
"disambiguation" outside of linguistics...
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2009/06/25/on-disambiguation-and-the-atomiz…
SJ
Disconflation gets only 45 google hits while unconflation gets 267.
Conflation, I guess, refers to confusion of similar ideas rather than
similar words.
Fred
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