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English Dictionary: Muße by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Muße
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mu
n
  1. the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   mu /moo/   The correct answer to the classic trick question
   "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?".   Assuming that you have
   no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is
   wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then
   stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and
   are still beating her.   According to various Discordians and Douglas
   Hofstadter the correct answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word
   alleged to mean "Your question cannot be answered because it depends
   on incorrect assumptions".   Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical
   inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with
   enthusiasm.   The word `mu' is actually from Chinese, meaning
   `nothing'; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense, but
   native speakers do not recognize the Discordian question-denying
   use.   It almost certainly derives from overgeneralization of the
   answer in the following well-known Rinzei Zen {koan}:
  
      A monk asked Joshu, "Does a dog have the Buddha nature?"   Joshu
      retorted, "Mu!"
  
   See also {has the X nature}, {Some AI Koans}, and Douglas
   Hofstadter's "Go"del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
   (pointer in the {Bibliography} in Appendix C.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Mu
  
      (Greek letter).
  
      1. /micro/ prefix denoting division by 10^6, e.g. mu m
      (micrometre, a millionth part of a metre).   Sometimes written
      as a 'u', the ASCII character nearest in appearance.
  
      2. /myoo/ In the theory of functions, mu x . E
      denotes the least value of x for which E = x, i.e. the {least
      fixed point} of the function \ x . E.   The {recursive}
      function mu f . H f satisfies (and is defined by) the equation
  
      mu f . H f = H (mu f . H f)
  
      An alternative notation for the same function is
  
      fix H = H (fix H)
  
      See {fixed point combinator}.
  
      3. {multiple value}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-10-30)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   mu
  
      1. The {country code} for Mauritius.
  
      2. /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick
      question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?".   Assuming
      that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the
      answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat
      your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it
      suggests that you have one and are still beating her.
      According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the
      correct answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word alleged to
      mean "Your question cannot be answered because it depends on
      incorrect assumptions".
  
      Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in
      language, and many have adopted this suggestion with
      enthusiasm.   The word "mu" is actually from Chinese, meaning
      "nothing"; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense,
      but native speakers do not recognise the Discordian
      question-denying use.   It almost certainly derives from
      overgeneralisation of the answer in the following well-known
      Rinzei Zen teaching riddle:
  
      A monk asked Joshu, "Does a dog have the Buddha nature?"
      Joshu retorted, "Mu!"
  
      See also {has the X nature}, {AI Koan}.
  
      [Douglas Hofstadter, "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden
      Braid"].
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (2000-11-22)
  
  
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