nor is 4.6 "5"
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Replying to @bitchimlying @perdricof
They are in real life There's never actually "2" of anything in real life, it's always 2.0321680636907731...
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This is a basic truth even when you're talking about counting sheep or stones Because the objects you're counting aren't truly identical and are standing in for some mass quantity like "kilos of wool" All measurement is approximation, even just counting
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
lol Now imagine the airlines counting seats this way.
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Replying to @bitchimlying @perdricof
The question of whether a baby who could in theory stay on a lap the whole time counts as a seat, or whether a fat person counts as two seats (and how fat they have to be before this is enforced) are all big real life questions airlines have to deal with
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
Irrelevant. One fat passenger is still one fat passenger. Regardless if they occupy two seats.
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Replying to @bitchimlying @perdricof
Yeah and if you're the airline, the seats are what is relevant and not the people
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You keep just tripping and falling on your face with every example you try to use
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
lol. Except i'm not the guy attempting to change the definition of "2" to "something other than 2"
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Replying to @bitchimlying @perdricof
The definition of "2" is that it is an abstract concept constructed by the human mind (we can get into the complexities of how it's constructed but it takes a while)
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By itself it has no relevance to the real world It only becomes relevant when you turn "two" from a noun into an adjective ("two sheep", "two kilograms", "two seats on the 8:15 out of Newark", "two points net favorability over a generic Republican")
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That process of applying math to real things, of "quantifying" - which can be called "counting", "measurement", or something more complicated and abstruse - is always carried out by humans and is always subjective
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If you don't understand this principle you don't really understand science, or math
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