When you think, “There are so many people who are wrong,” maybe it’s you who’s wrong.
This needs a little more digging.
- When you feel that “X is clearly A and not B,” and yet there are many people who say, as an observational fact, that “X is B.”
- I feel “there are a lot of people out there who are wrong,” but that’s the lack of relativism
- Using the word X in the sense that you think it is X is implicitly constrained by context
- The other person makes me look crazy for not sharing the context.
- Mr. P thinks “X is A, not B”.
- This X is X0 implicitly constrained by context to a narrow X1
- By the same logic, it could also be “X is B, not A” depending on the context.
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