Talk:Tempering out
"Vanish"
I'm not sure this word deserves to be one of the lemmas, not to mention a redirect page and many replacements in other articles. It's an everyday word which basically means disappear, and both are figurative ways to describe tempering out. These metaphors are typically used to add lexical variety in writing, tho some authors may prefer using one of them as we found in Paul Erlich's Middle Path. However, I'm afraid that alone doesn't make it a synonym, since it can be used outside the context of RTT to mean other things. For example, to describe the collapsing of small steps in mos scales.
A temperament is sometimes referred to by a recipe. Does that make recipe a proper replacement of temperament? I don't think so. A recipe can be a temperament, a scale, a chord, or others, depending on context. There's nothing in the word itself to inform the reader that it's a temperament. So it's a good alternative if the context is clear, but still not a formal substitute. Vanish is like recipe.
Note that, while RTT is abstract, what it models is very concrete. An interval can be made to "vanish" thru some manipulations for sure. The question is: what kind of manipulation is used? What's the implementation? Here we should see vanish is no substitute for tempering out.
Edited the page to reflect that.