more/most correct

Hi, Young.

To me it doesn't seem like grammar question. It is rather a matter of philisophy and one's weltanschauung. Some things, while not being completely incorrect, may be at same time not absolutely correct... The universe is not binary, it is continuous.

It is more correct to say "Bayes theorem" than "Bayes's theorem", which is in turn not incorrect.

"A more corre

Thanks, Ant.

I agree with you. I've seen many posters say 'more correct'.

I think 'more correct' should not be confused with 'unique'. We cannot say 'more/most unique'.

Generally yes, but it is possible sometimes:

«Nonetheless, such forms often do make sense in a specific context. If one fossil is from the very beginning of the Cretaceous period — the transition into the Cretaceous period — while another is from the middle of that period, then the latter might be described as "more Cretaceous" than the former. If one solution to a problem leaves everyon

Ant_222Hi, Young. [...] It is rather a matter of philisophy. Really? The universe is not binary, it is continuous. We are not examining the universe.

In English adjectives can be placed in two groups: those that lend themselves to comparison and those that don't. Take for example the a

Bokeh: read the Wikipedia quotation above. I describes just what I think about your remark.

That article is pretty poor compared to others found on the Wikipedia website. It starts with a notice that says it needs improvement, provides no citations to support the text, and ends with a comment questioning where the information came from (original research?).

more Cretaceous

I can't imagine reading that in the catalogue of a muesem.

«That article is pretty poor compared to others found on the Wikipedia website...»

Yeah, I don't care! I just found there my opinion expressed and the explanations are the same as I'd give!

The language is affected by the way people think, so just try to understand them.

If in a game I was shown two excerpts of a book and asked to choose which one is written by Pushkin,

Ant_222I don't care!

Was it a goal? Well... erm... it was nearly a goal. Well it wasn't a goal then was it.
Did you win? Well... erm... we nearly won. Well you didn't win then did you.

There are no varing degrees of absolute adjectives.

It depends on which meaning of "correct" you are using.

Sometimes correctness can be partial, and then it makes sense to have notions of things being more or less correct, or of a thing being the most correct.

Sometimes "correctness" can be a matter of opinion. This is particularly true of some aspects of English usage.

I can't help but find this exchange between Ant and Bokeh interesting. Here is my take. Correct - besides it's an adjective, it's also a state, like being wrong or right. There are univeral understandings what are correct (right) and what are incorrect (wrong). Cheating on your spouse 2 twice is just as wrong as once. One time does not make it less wrong, By the same token,to say something is m