gunnervi comments on Feel the Meaning - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gunnervi 09 July 2012 12:07:48AM *  3 points [-]

but is it really that hard a lesson to process?

I am going to assume that by now you've read enough of the Sequences to recognize your possible hindsight bias, in your post.

In any case, merely saying that "words are labels" is akin to the guessing the teacher's password; people have said it for ages (e.g., "a rose by any other name" from Romeo and Juliet), yet most people (in my opinion) do not truly understand it.