Vish (game)
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Vish (game)
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In the game of Vish, players compete to find circularity in dictionary definitions. Irish mathematician and physicist, John Lighton Synge, invented the multi-player, refereed game to emphasize the circular reasoning implicit in the defining process of any standard dictionary. In his book, Projective Geometry, H.S.M. Coxeter cites Vish in his discussion of definitions in mathematics: Vish illustrates the important principle that any definition of a word must inevitably involve other words, which
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2003-09-26T17:21:45Z
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2024-08-27T08:14:45Z
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