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Mr Lasastryke posted...

i think you meant to quote my previous post but yeah, obviously you shouldn't believe something just because i say it.

"you should believe whatever most people are saying" is also wrong, though, because https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/bandwagon

I'm not talking about a bandwagon or believing things to fit in, I'm talking about the inherent subjectivity of naming things. Words have no meaning beyond what people assign to them. And if I'm a rational person who doesn't understand the words "blue" and "purple" because, let's say, I don't speak English, and I see everyone pointing at the sky and calling it purple, I will associate that word with the color of the sky. And I'd be right in doing so. Now, if they say the sky is purple and they also say that violet flowers, the fringe of a Roman toga, etc. are purple, then I would think there are three likely possibilities: (1) English uses one word for two colors, or (2) I can see more colors than these people, or (3) my eyes are deceiving me.

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