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With all due respect to Dijkstra, whether or not something is interesting is subjective. I wonder if his point was that the question didn't need to be answered

With all due respect to Dijkstra, whether or not something is interesting is subjective. I wonder if his point was that the question didn't need to be answered for whatever they were discussing at the time?

dTal 2y ago
His point is that question ultimately boils down to a semantic argument over the word "think/swim", which may be interesting to a linguist but is not philosophically meaty in the way the question implies.