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 <fredb...@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 > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
