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PrometheanFaun comments on Yet more "stupid" questions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: PrometheanFaun 05 September 2013 10:54:58AM 0 points [-]

I find the strangely indefinite way humans name things interesting, but I try to have a safe amount of disinterest in the actual denotations of the names themselves, especially the ones which seem to throw off paradoxes in every direction when you put your weight on them. Whatever they are, they weren't built to be thought about in any depth.