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Does a submarine swim?

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• mattigames 4y ago
  People sometimes forget that words are just useful labels, the ship of Theseus is whatever ship we agree is the ship of Theseus, it was just very handy to make a sound for others to know what ship I'm talking about, but it is not an specific/defined set of atoms, it never was, the same thing happens with a lot (maybe all) concepts such as swimming, or even statistical inferences.
  • pyinstallwoes 4y ago
    Well it’s not entirely arbitrary. You can say it objectively fits within a frequency spectrum. Similar to colors or musical notes.
  • masswerk 4y ago
    "Nominalis! Eum comprehende, eum combure!" ;-) (Meaning, there has been an ongoing discussion about this for about a millennium, but I'm a nominalist, as well.)