Truth is not a boolean. Things can be more or less true. Truth is AT LEAST a two dimensional space.
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4/ And the immediate rebuttal is "The truth? All of it? Every single day in every single one of millions of lives, for decades / centuries? That's impossible. We must prune and simplify." Heady stuff for a 12 or 13 year old.
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5/ uh... "Time" is not an actor. Individuals simplify and write histories.https://twitter.com/_ragegun/status/1293637906846949379 …
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6/ > at any precisely enough defined point. So you've just taken the complexity that I spoke of and moved it out of the datum and into the meta-data. That seems... trivial/ boring, no?https://twitter.com/SquaresToCubes/status/1293638913219682304 …
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7/ It's like if I say "on an insanely stormy sea, the exact interface between 'water' and 'air' becomes hard to pin down" and you say "ah, to the contrary, if I define 'water' as any cubic centimeter w density D (specified to 8 places), then it's very easy" THAT'S THE POINT
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8/ btw, want to circle back to Poul Anderson. One of the things that makes me sick about the modern state of SF is that the kids haven't read the classics, and so they reinvent stuff, [ extremely ] poorly.https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1293637088823390209 …
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10/ > Truth is boolean OK, I accept that that is your argument, but that is exactly contradictory to my statement / argument. I don't see any reason in your tweet to change my mind / accept your assertion.https://twitter.com/SquaresToCubes/status/1293640695333285888 …
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