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frezik@midwest.social 4 weeks agoIs there a way to distinguish between arbitrary and non-arbitrary? Or is literally everything ever arbitrary?
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frezik@midwest.social 4 weeks agoIs there a way to distinguish between arbitrary and non-arbitrary? Or is literally everything ever arbitrary?
yetiftw@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
literally every definition ever is arbitrary
frezik@midwest.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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)