IgnoranceI once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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Yes, it does. That's how nouns work. Stones for instance are called stones, because we call them stones.(
The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 11:16,
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No it doesn't. We could call an apple a stone but it would still be an apple.(, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 12:02, closed)
No, if everyone started calling an apple a stone, after a while the definition would be added to dictionarys.Give it a couple centuries, and you'd have to look in a historical thesaurus to find out that stones used to be called apples.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 12:14,
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You lot need to read some WittgensteinThat'll clear it up.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/#Lan
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I was thinking more Kripke and Putnam.And then they could perhaps come back and explain Naming and Necessity, because I've never managed to get through it.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 14:16,
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