Word of the Day
May. 23rd, 2017 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mathhobbitVerisimilitude
The more I think about it, the more I'm disturbed by a word meaning "seems like it's probably true". As a scientist, I don't want to admit that intuition is so closely linked to acceptance as fact.
Yesterday's word was Lagniappe, which doesn't have the origins I would have expected.
The more I think about it, the more I'm disturbed by a word meaning "seems like it's probably true". As a scientist, I don't want to admit that intuition is so closely linked to acceptance as fact.
Yesterday's word was Lagniappe, which doesn't have the origins I would have expected.
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Date: 2017-05-24 03:40 am (UTC)There's a difference between trying to be plausible and trying to pass to something off as truth.