When people say something is obvious they usually merely mean that it is apparent. Very subtle linguistic technique to smuggle in a truth-claim.
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Synonyms do not have to be identical in meaning, so as long as they're close in meaning. There can be subtle differences.
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which was precisely my original point, thank you.
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Actually I would say that statement works pretty well for that, yeah. But I understand what you mean... synonyms aren't always perfectly symmetric Yet I still fail to see the how using 'obvious' injects a truth claim, while using 'apparent' doesn't. Anyways...
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