Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.

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kelpie_returns@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Without both perfect symbols and perfectly understanding wielders of those symbols, there is no such thing as perfect communication.

To me, this unfortunately means that your dream will forever remain a dream because there is no such thing as perfection in any field. People will always make associations with words that were not initially intended to be made with those words, meaning that, even if we correctly define something and generally agree on that definition, through culture and more specific types of interaction with symbolic phenomenon, those true meanings will all always be open to alteration and redefinition. Making words more precise does not change the user-end of this phenomenon, meaning that no amount of accuracy will be enough to correct for human blunder and ignorance. I dont think there is a fix to this problem :(

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