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The Value of Circular Definitions: stats & graphs on structure of human language
- soofy 14y agoOriginal paper (free): http://prx.aps.org/pdf/PRX/v2/i3/e031018 http://prx.aps.org/pdf/PRX/v2/i3/e031018 A talk by the authors: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/tlusty/talks/Loops2012.pdf http://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/tlusty/talks/Loops2012.pdf Some discussions in forums suggest some possible relation with other self-referential constructs in math such as recursive functions, logical paradoxes, Godel incompleteness, etc.