Lots of folks (e.g. in my replies) confuse being able to name something and being able to explain it (i.e. understand it). "Why does each half of the earth get cooler/hotter in opposite yearly cycles?" "Duh, that's just seasons"
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The ultimate version of this being extremely hot takes like "that's just brain development". I mean, sure. Also, computing is just electrons and art is just pixels. Easy. I have all the answers. I know the words!
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Sometimes it's a bit subtle. "How do airplanes fly?" "That's just *lift*" "Why does a child born from parents with brown and blue eyes respectively have brown eyes?" "That's just because the *allele* for blue eyes is *recessive*"
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Naming things closes doors too easily. The reality behind these questions easily answered with a single term is extraordinarily complex, and very few people actually understand it.
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You’re just using sentences to say things. Too easy.
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@paulkrugman called this "dormative properties" after some character in a book who explained how a certain medicine caused people to fall asleep due to its "dormative properties".Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It is a way to store information in society level abstractions which you can refer to.
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Duh that's just how people communicate
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