From: Michael Roy Ames (michaelroyames@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 16:44:53 MST
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Quantitative" fits well, so ideally I'd like to get rid of
> "qualitative" and replace it with something that more
> effectively conveys the image of a selection from a bounded
> set or binary set. Any suggestions?
You are right... the words sound so similar, they lead to confusion. My
'top of the head' ideas may be non-starters, but they might spark some other
ideas.
"qualitative" vs "quantitative"
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