Is there a way to distinguish between arbitrary and non-arbitrary? Or is literally everything ever arbitrary?
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yetiftw@lemmy.world 2 months agojust because it has a reason doesn’t make it not arbitrary. you can ultimately come up with a reason for all arbitrary decisions
frezik@midwest.social 2 months ago
yetiftw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
literally every definition ever is arbitrary
frezik@midwest.social 2 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@lemmy.world 2 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)
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Do you not understand what the word arbitrary means?…
yetiftw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
maybe you’re the one who doesn’t understand the ramifications of its meaning