“Specific” isn’t very specific. If you use it so narrowly as to only include examples where people have actually done a calculation, it means mean more than it means anything else, but not “much more often.” But I think that there are a lot of broader meanings of “specific” under which mean loses.
“Specific” isn’t very specific. If you use it so narrowly as to only include examples where people have actually done a calculation, it means mean more than it means anything else, but not “much more often.” But I think that there are a lot of broader meanings of “specific” under which mean loses.
Maybe, but they happen not to be the meaning of “specific” I was using when I wrote the words in question.
(Of course you needn’t care about that. The author is dead, etc.)