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Table of Contents
Major trains of thought
Philosophy
Trainwrecks
Nature of Things
Fact of the Universe
Tolerance
Ship of Theseus
I'm 14 and this is deep
Words
Claim
Court
Redemption
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Okay look, 'whirl around' and 'spin' don't mean what you think down here; because, in the land of quantum, words mean nothing, there is only math.
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~CGP Grey, in The Simple Secret of Runway Digits
Words are individual, meaningful elements1) as part of a wider framework called a language, used to communicate meaning from one place to another.2) Words define themselves through 1) their use and 2) the patterns that they are associated with.
This may sound kind of complicated (as in convoluted), but it will make more sense as I describe the reason I come to this definition.
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