RE: [External] : Re: Morally equivalent

[Drew Adams]

> > What is a 'moral equivalence' in Emacs Lisp?
> 
> I have actually seen this expression used in a similar manner
> in what is supposed to be a serious mathematical textbook.
> Grimmett & Welsh, in "Probability, An Introduction" state
> 
> "A slightly different but morally equivalent definition of a
> discrete random variable is a function X : Omega -> R such
> that there exists a countable subset S ⊆ R with P(X ∈ S) = 1."

And what did you conclude it meant there?

Just as good? More or less the same? Not
worse? Equivalent modulo some unstated or
maybe unknown but probably unimportant or
trivial diffrences?

Something else?