It is only by having some understanding of this concept that you would have any basis for having the argument!
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I know what you think you're arguing against, you're arguing against a horrible PoMo bogeyman who wants to say that measurement is impossible and quantities don't exist so I can beat someone up and take all their money and go "But you don't have any less money than before!"
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This is fucking stupid No one is saying that The understanding that language is arbitrary and infinitely many languages exist besides your own will not destroy language
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Become a street vendor and start arguing for that degree of rounding. See how it goes.
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If I do not have access to a measurement tool with the degree of precision I want, and I am forced to compromise based on estimates (a common outcome in street vending, depending on the street), there are many situations where the 2+2 = 5 result is the fairer one
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