Explicitly Avoid False Conditionals
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An infestation of termites is weakening mathematical writing. We all too often resort to wishy-washy conditionals such as ‘can be’ or ‘wish to’ hidden within the body of sentences. Just as termites weaken a building, these conditionals erode writing by turning what should be definite statements into weak conditionals. Get rid of them. If in your analysis or computational experiments you do something, then say so definitely; if not, say that; be explicit.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006