“What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets^W heuristics.”—Apologies to Andre Malraux
But enough talk, have at you!
You mean ^ as “group intersection”, but what about the W?
^W means Control-W, which is the ASCII code for “delete previous word”.
Oh, “heuristics”, otherwise known as “prejudice”! The main difference in connotation being that heuristics are changed in the face of enough contrary evidence, while prejudices… aren’t.
Of course prejudices can be changed, at which point they become postjudices.
No, they become “judgements”. I too wish the lnguage obeyed the rules of etymology, but life is not so easy.
“What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets^W heuristics.”—Apologies to Andre Malraux
But enough talk, have at you!
You mean ^ as “group intersection”, but what about the W?
^W means Control-W, which is the ASCII code for “delete previous word”.
Oh, “heuristics”, otherwise known as “prejudice”! The main difference in connotation being that heuristics are changed in the face of enough contrary evidence, while prejudices… aren’t.
Of course prejudices can be changed, at which point they become postjudices.
No, they become “judgements”. I too wish the lnguage obeyed the rules of etymology, but life is not so easy.