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1Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA pdescioli@gmail.com; pdescioli.com.
Abstract:
The target article claims that we should speak in code to understand property, because natural language is too ambiguous. Yet the best computer programmers tell us the opposite: Arbitrary code is too ambiguous, so we should use natural language for variables, functions, and classes. I discuss how meaningless code makes Boyer's theory too enigmatic to properly debate.
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