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Re:Type I and Type II Errors: The Inevitable Errors in Optim... by earthboundkid on Thursday April 09, 2020 @03:36PM (#22826334)
One of the greatest terrible technical names of all time has got to be the philosophers who knew than "intention" was already a word but decided that the opposite of "extension" should be "intension" because WHY SHOULDN'T WE JUST USE HOMOPHONES FOR SIMILAR BUT SUBTLY DIFFERENT CONCEPTS FML
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Re:Type I and Type II Errors: The Inevitable Errors in Optim... by yters on Thursday April 09, 2020 @03:52PM (#22826482)
So that's what that means! I remember reading a philosophy article using that word and not being able to make heads or tails of it, constantly thinking "how is intension related to intention?"
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