[Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

[FT2]

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


On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at 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-atomization-of-meaning/
> >
> > 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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