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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
No, what I find peculiar is how "theory" means "unproven" in the context of conspiracies, and "proven" in the context of science.
Do you not see this absurdity?
Yes. It is absurd. No one's saying the English language is not absurd.
The word literally means both itself and it's own antonym, without any fuzziness.
[EDIT]Even that sentence is an unintended pun. Add quotes to the word "literally"[/EDIT]
It is what it is.
Verbal communication is already an awkward symbolic exchange.
All we can do is try to find the right combination of word-things that convey the invisible thought-ideas from our meat-brain to someone else's meat-brain in a way that gets them to think the same invisible thought-ideas we think. That takes cooperation on both sides.
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