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"I understand you think the water is wet and the sky is blue – but what does wet mean? What does blue mean?" Great questions for interesting philosophical and
by 23B1 3y ago
"I understand you think the water is wet and the sky is blue – but what does wet mean? What does blue mean?"
Great questions for interesting philosophical and academic debate.
Silly questions for deciding how to, say, raise kids.
- Tokkemon 3y agoWay to totally miss the point.
- 23B1 3y agoHow so?
- lotsofpulp 3y agoNeither of your examples are inferring causation from correlation, they are just questions about how to define wet and blue.
- 23B1 3y agoYes, but they're obvious things that could be dissected ad nauseam in the course of academic – as opposed to pragmatic – discourse. Water is wet, sky is blue, obsessive social media use is bad. I understand this is HN and the Internet, and so niggling academic arguments are fun and all, but sometimes it's okay for the obvious to be uncontroversial.
- pb7 3y agoFor what it's worth, I'm with you. Worst case is we somehow dwindle phone usage and it turns out that that wasn't the issue -- hardly a tragedy. Even if it doesn't affect mood/mental health, the time savings alone will be worth something.