• @[email protected]
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    13 months ago

    Is there a way to distinguish between arbitrary and non-arbitrary? Or is literally everything ever arbitrary?

    • @yetiftw
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      12 months ago

      literally every definition ever is arbitrary

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Then what’s the point of even calling it arbitrary? If it covers everything, then there’s no reason for the word.

        • @yetiftw
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          12 months ago

          that’s not true. there are things that are not definitions. like my bed for instance, there are aspects that are arbitrary (my personal preferences, design choices, etc) and aspects that are not arbitrary (its physical form that exists beyond definition)