> 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
Good research topic: What characteristics of ideas or facts lead to conflation. To take a notorious example, when Sarah Palin was asked about her foreign relations experience with respect to Russia, she replied that you could see Russia from Alaska. But true conflation, as a menace to discourse, includes much less easily distinguished concepts. Fred > 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
