Functions are an important concept for understanding the world, however the word "function" is slippery and ambiguous

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Sometimes when people talk about "functions" they are talking about abstract processes that can be instantiated in the real world, other times they are talking about the properties of things that make them fit for some purpose. Other times they mean something else entirely - for example mathematical structure for mapping inputs to unique outputs. In general, many words in natural language are…

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