Timeline for Can any pair of associate parabolics be related by opposite parabolics?
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| Jun 23, 2023 at 21:21 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | @Satan'sMinion : I disagree. There are contexts in which this makes a concrete practical difference in whether one is understood. | |
| Jun 21, 2023 at 23:28 | comment | added | Satan's Minion | @Michael Hardy: Your pedantry is presumptuous and completely irrelevant to the question. | |
| Jun 21, 2023 at 17:42 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | In standard English, the question "Can any pair etc.etc.?" would normally be construed as "Is there any pair that can etc.etc.?", so that "any" becomes an existential quantifier. In other contexts "any" is a universal quantifier, as in "Any fool can do that." And "Any member can serve as chair of the committee" is not synonymous with "Every member can serve as chair of the committee" nor with "Some member can serve as chair of the committee". English-speaking mathematicians use the word "any" too much. This should be phrased as "Can every pair etc.etc." $\qquad$ | |
| Jun 21, 2023 at 17:06 | answer | added | Anthony Blanche | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 10, 2023 at 8:49 | history | edited | Anthony Blanche | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2023 at 18:35 | comment | added | LSpice | Observation: upon choosing a maximal torus in $G$ that is contained in $P_1 \cap P_2$, this can be viewed as purely a question about root systems. But I don't know the answer for root systems. | |
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| S Jun 9, 2023 at 13:40 | history | asked | Anthony Blanche | CC BY-SA 4.0 |