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  2. Wikipedia talk : Writing better articles/Define and describe

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    24 - in my experience people learn jargon far better from good examples, good in-context use. This would be a better rule: always include an "i.e." ("that is", restating the thing in different words), always include an "e.g." ("for example", giving a more specific case).

  3. Question - Wikipedia

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    At the level of semantics, a question is defined by its ability to establish a set of logically possible answers. [ 1 ] At the level of pragmatics , a question is an illocutionary category of speech act which seeks to obtain information from the addressee.

  4. Sample space - Wikipedia

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    A sample space is usually denoted using set notation, and the possible ordered outcomes, or sample points, [5] are listed as elements in the set. It is common to refer to a sample space by the labels S, Ω, or U (for "universal set"). The elements of a sample space may be numbers, words, letters, or symbols.

  5. Event (probability theory) - Wikipedia

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    An event, however, is any subset of the sample space, including any singleton set (an elementary event), the empty set (an impossible event, with probability zero) and the sample space itself (a certain event, with probability one). Other events are proper subsets of the sample space that contain multiple elements. So, for example, potential ...

  6. Information - Wikipedia

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    For example, in written text each symbol or letter conveys information relevant to the word it is part of, each word conveys information relevant to the phrase it is part of, each phrase conveys information relevant to the sentence it is part of, and so on until at the final step information is interpreted and becomes knowledge in a given domain.

  7. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    English words are not generally marked for word class. It is not usually possible to tell from the form of a word which class it belongs to; inflectional endings and derivational suffixes are unique and specific to. On the other hand, most words belong to more than one word class.

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lists

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    Lists should never contain "Unsorted" or "Miscellaneous" headings, as all items worthy of inclusion in the list can be sorted by some criteria, although it is entirely possible that the formatting of the list would need to be revamped to include all appropriate items. Not-yet-sorted items may be included on the list's talk page while their ...

  9. Possible world - Wikipedia

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    A possible world is a complete and consistent way the world is or could have been. Possible worlds are widely used as a formal device in logic , philosophy , and linguistics in order to provide a semantics for intensional and modal logic .