I'm not asking about naming and thinking about. — Terrapin Station
The stuff the measure is made of is objectively there — Isaac
A measurement is a concept. — Isaac
No. That's not even a sophormoric conflation. It's a freshman-level conflation. Or a high school kid getting high and thinking that he might be interested in philosophy-level conflation. — Terrapin Station
You can't conflate concepts and what they're concepts of. That's one of the most naive philosophical mistakes. — Terrapin Station
Now, you can make a sort of "guesstimation measurement" in your head at times, but that's not what we're talking about. — Terrapin Station
So, ad populum arguments are fair use when they suit you? — Isaac
Can you explain this question? — Terrapin Station
Simply saying that better educated people would not agree with me — Isaac
Can speech-censoring as a means to mitigate/overcome unnecessary suffering (of those who would take psycho-affective (?) damage from such speech), ultimately achieve such? — Blurrosier
I'm inclined to believe that, at most, the essence of such a relation (oppressor/oppressed?) may be fixed in its nature, but the circumstantially-dictated attributes are surely liable to change, are they not? — Blurrosier
Maybe I'm still not understanding your point, because "ad hoc" seems, to me, to be a wonderful modality (?) to adopt. — Blurrosier
uler manufacturers aren't even aware of the official standard that an inch is 127/500 of the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 of a second. They probably just use some sort of template they have on hand. — Terrapin Station
Certainly. That's why it's humorous. I'll check my rule against it for accuracy. — creativesoul
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