Talk:Immanuel Velikovsky

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[edit] Conflate vs confuse

I have not read the book, but I read the blog posting and I am still unsure about usage. The first I think should be confused as carbohydrate = hydrocarbon, but hydrocarbon ≠ carbohydrate I can't see how you would conflate them, but I can see how you would confuse them. - User = \scriptstyle(6\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}n^{-2})^{1/2} 00:32, 10 March 2009 (EDT)

Conflate is to combine erroneously. Confuse is not to know them apart, or to mix them up. ħumanUser talk:Human 01:46, 10 March 2009 (EDT)
How can you combine something that is a subset of the other erroneously? - User = \scriptstyle(6\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}n^{-2})^{1/2}
Then the first should be "confused"? Although I can see how (conflate primates with mammals?). ħumanUser talk:Human 02:01, 10 March 2009 (EDT)
Didn't Fox News do that once? - User = \scriptstyle(6\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}n^{-2})^{1/2} 02:03, 10 March 2009 (EDT)
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