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One of the absolute worst attributes of smart people is their willingness to argue over the semantics of a word rather than simply accept the overall premise be
by mreiland 12y ago
One of the absolute worst attributes of smart people is their willingness to argue over the semantics of a word rather than simply accept the overall premise being communicated by the other person.
- dreamweapon 12y agoExcept when, as in this case, the underlying semantic confusion of their premise (or how they articulated it) has a lot to do with why it was wrong in the first place.