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Comment author: Jiro 18 April 2015 02:35:51PM 0 points [-]

People do die as the result of poor breathing so "sufficient" isn't that clear either.

I've never heard of anyone dying as a result of poor breathing related to lack of skill in breathing.

I think you're trying to fight the hypothetical. Do you seriously think there is no X such that I can say that X doesn't require any skill?

Comment author: ChristianKl 18 April 2015 06:24:26PM 0 points [-]

I think the word ability is pretty synonymous with skill.

Comment author: Jiro 18 April 2015 07:43:03PM 0 points [-]

That's a bit like saying "Playing chess requires no skill at all." You just have to memorize a fairly trivial set of rules of how pieces move. Even if you violate the chess rules you likely still survive the experience, so playing chess is completely about innate ability.

That quote clearly is an attempt by you to contrast skill with ability, and to equate "requires no skill" with "is about innate ability". You can't mean for skill and ability to be synonymous in that.

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