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Comment by bhritchie

The first paragraph reminds me of the great example by which J.L. Austin distinguished precision from exactness: a stick could be exactly, but not precisely, six bananas long.

In the present case we could say that six random bananas could accurately but not precisely represent the length of a stick.

parent bhritchie 8 years ago

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