Richard Feyman had an anecdote about walking with his dad and his dad constantly pointing out birds and saying what the species was called https://twitter.com/jautero/status/883923047643848704 …
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But in and of themselves they are not information
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And in fact you can learn a lot about an actual individual bird by just thinking of it as "this bird" and observing it for its own sake
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I always resented "that's just semantics" as an argument. Semantics are critical for communication!!!
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