Is Entropy a Good Idea?

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N j nfield says he is skeptical of the premise that language is good for lawyers and not scientists. The structures of our brains are naturally adapt to the purposes of persuasion and social contact. Those are the kinds of purposes that lawyers need in their everyday life. Scientists have a much more rigorous way of describing the world, so don't be surprised when natural language doesn't fit easily with what they're doing.

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