Just wanted to start off today by thanking @ConceptualJames for repeatedly verbally insulting me last night as it has lead to a +500 spike in followers in the last 12 hours. I wasn't going to bring it up but my follows were a little sluggish last few days. 
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Replying to @kareem_carr @ConceptualJames
Insulting you? How so? Doesn’t seem his style. Insulting ideas I could picture, but what insults did he sling at you?
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Replying to @CanuckPlucky @ConceptualJames
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Replying to @kareem_carr @ConceptualJames
Hrm. Fair enough. I think
@ConceptualJames is getting a bit too wrapped up in his work or exposing ppl to the flaws in a lot of woke ideology, maybe needs a break. Your examples are silly: changing defn’s can make any statement true. But that’s all that needs to be said.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @CanuckPlucky @ConceptualJames
They aren't silly. As a data analyst, I think about non-linear number scales all the time. It's absolutely essential to my work. I was literally talking about datasets where a rigid view of the measure would get you in trouble. Clock data. Pricing data. Imprecise measurements.
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Which of those do you think doesn't really occur in real life applications?
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Replying to @kareem_carr @ConceptualJames
They are silly in the context of trying to show that 2+2=4 is not necessarily correct. In the same way that this would be silly: “The word pain always means an unpleasant physical sensation.” “Not if you use it in French!” It’s correct. It’s true. It’s also a silly point.
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If I am teaching the basics of language to a class, bringing up the alternate definition of ‘pain’ in order to promote ‘other ways of knowing’ and to avoid an ‘Anglo-Saxon worldview’ would be inane posturing. Yes, it’s true. But it’s also unhelpful and silly posturing.
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It is in fact true that the word "pain" is just a word, and that like many emotionally charged words people use it in a huge number of different contexts and there is no way to argue that any specific definition is objectively right or wrong
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Bringing up the French word for bread may be a silly way to phrase this point, but it's a perfectly valid point "Words are just words and only mean what people say they mean" is just plain true
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CanuckPlucky and
And it's a completely valid and important point to bring up if you start screaming at someone who says they're in pain that they can't be in pain because their physical body has sustained no damage and using the word "pain" for "emotional pain" is "wrong"
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