People sometimes respond with “that’s a different story than this one.”
The definition of “different” is unclear when it says “X and Y are different stories.
- naively, unless Y is a word-for-word copy of X, in which case they are “different.”
- In this case, “different” is self-explanatory, so there is no information content in pointing out that it is not.
- Either the speaker is making a zero information statement, or the speaker has some particular definition of “different”.
- → To have a constructive discussion, it is necessary to confirm what the speaker means by “different.”
relevance - Same” and “different” go hand in hand.
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