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> Just wanted to point out it may technically have been correct. It's not correct in any sense if you have to torture the statement like you did to extract som
by tablespoon 4y ago
> Just wanted to point out it may technically have been correct.
It's not correct in any sense if you have to torture the statement like you did to extract something correct or see the answer as ambiguous. In that context, "a[n] exoplanet" just plain means "any exoplanet."
- hgsgm 4y agoHow would you describe what JWST did, in simple language, without the ponderous name of the planet?
- tablespoon 4y agoProbably "there is an exoplanet that was first observed by JWST." However, there's very little actual linguistic need to express "JWST was the first telescope to observe exoplanet LHS 475b," without actually naming the planet or adding some other unique condition. Realistically, the way you'd express this fact with reasonable utility is "LHS 475b was first observed by JWST," or "the first exoplanet observed by JWST was LHS 475b."