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I've thought about this a lot during my experience of learning Bill and it seems to me that Bill is an overly vague person. By that I mean, he doesn't really get to the point or make his points clear.

For example, he writes in his "two step process to a better life" that we must, "identify what's important and eliminate everything else." I think this is extremely vague, and I think that we should either try and make Bill more clear, or change the way that we are learning Bill.

And don't get me started on his new Zynga Games thread. "Here are some games, tell me what you think." Does it get any more vague than that?!

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I've thought about this a lot during my experience of learning Bill and it seems to me that Bill is an overly vague person. By that I mean, he doesn't really get to the point or make his points clear.

For example, he writes in his "two step process to a better life" that we must, "identify what's important and eliminate everything else." I think this is extremely vague, and I think that we should either try and make Bill more clear, or change the way that we are learning Bill.

And don't get me started on his new Zynga Games thread. "Here are some games, tell me what you think." Does it get any more vague than that?!

The vagueness of Bill is an intriguing phenomenon. (and soon to be a straight to DVD movie). He never seems to think what he's meaning, or indeed mean what he's thinking. Instead he twirls round in an endless moebius strip of nonsensical logic.

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I've thought about this a lot during my experience of learning Bill and it seems to me that Bill is an overly vague person. By that I mean, he doesn't really get to the point or make his points clear.

For example, he writes in his "two step process to a better life" that we must, "identify what's important and eliminate everything else." I think this is extremely vague, and I think that we should either try and make Bill more clear, or change the way that we are learning Bill.

And don't get me started on his new Zynga Games thread. "Here are some games, tell me what you think." Does it get any more vague than that?!

What are you trying to say?

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Vague claims can be interpreted so they fit almost any situation. If we mistakenly believe this fit is caused by the profound insight of the person making the claim, rather than the vague nature of the claim itself, we can adopt some seriously false beliefs. This could lead to spending a lot of money for advice from somebody who really has nothing useful to tell us, or taking bad advice, or even becoming involved in a some religious cult or some other dubious cause. Vague statements are a legitimate part of communication but it is important to recognize them for what they are.

(taken from http://www.vaguerini.com)

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no homo

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Vagueness, in contrast, precipitates a profound problem: the sorites paradox. For instance,

Base step: A one day year old human being is a child.Induction step: If an
n
day old human being is a child, then that human being is also a child when it is
n
+ 1 days old.

Conclusion: Therefore, a 36,500 day old human being is a child.

The conclusion is false because a 100 year old man is clearly a non-child. Since the base step of the argument is also plainly true and the argument is valid by mathematical induction, we seem to have no choice but to reject the second premise.

(Stanford.edu)

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