We do it in maths all the time. We could have called a hypercube a "foo" but because it's like a cube in many, but not all ways, we decided it's easier to play on that similarity.
It's still risky, because sometimes our imaginiation is fooled by one of the ways it isn't like, but all in all it's probably still the easier course.
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Date: 2005-04-05 03:28 pm (UTC)It's still risky, because sometimes our imaginiation is fooled by one of the ways it isn't like, but all in all it's probably still the easier course.