Originally posted by Kidicious
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Take developing fruit for example. You can call it fruitlet, baby fruit, or fruit. All three terms are used and all are understood by English speakers. Only a retards would say "No. It's only a fruitlet!"
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"You were the one that claims that a "developing baby" and a "developed baby" are not 2 distinct groups but practically are the same (as you claim that the operative term, is "baby" and not "developing " vs. "developed")"
Yeah, and that's true. "Developing baby" is part of the group "baby."
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Scientific definition /= definition. And no they are not important because we aren't talking about science. ****!
Words can mean two different things to two different people. FACT!
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Originally posted by Kidicious View PostAgain, he didn't say that a fetus is a born baby. You are stuck in stupid.
Originally posted by Kidicious View PostThe correct meaning of a would depends on what the person meant when they used it. FACT!
The Theory vs. Hypothesis problem I mentioned is a good example for this.
Common people don't even think about the possibility that "Theory" may have a different meaning from the one they use. (And actually, the words "theory" and "hypothesis" as they are used in science predate the use of "theory" in "normal society" )
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Originally posted by Proteus_MST View Post
Even if million people use it with this meaning, in exact terms a (born) baby still is different from a fetus (and therefore you won't be able to attribute to a fetus the same capabilities/attributes, that you can attribute to a baby)
It is the same with "theory" ... in common language people (incorectly) use theory different from scientists.
When common people say "theory" they often mayn something that, for a scientist, is a "hypothesis", which also is why common people often think that the "Theory of Evolution" is just a theory (in their terms), whereas "Theory" in sicentific terms has a stronger meaning (and this misuse of the terms by laymen then also leads to religious fundamentalists thinking they have a strong case against evolution, as it is "just a theory" )
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I don't think anyone here is supporting 3rd trimester abortions except under extreme circumstances. It's pretty much common sense that the fetus is developed at that point.
It should be equally evident that on day one the the fetus isn't yet but to some it isn't.
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Originally posted by Kidicious View Post
The only one defining their own definitions is you. Everyone else knows that a baby is either unborn or born. They say it all the time. Therefore that is the definition.
It is the same with "theory" ... in common language people (incorectly) use theory different from scientists.
When common people say "theory" they often mayn something that, for a scientist, is a "hypothesis", which also is why common people often think that the "Theory of Evolution" is just a theory (in their terms), whereas "Theory" in sicentific terms has a stronger meaning (and this misuse of the terms by laymen then also leads to religious fundamentalists thinking they have a strong case against evolution, as it is "just a theory" )Last edited by Proteus_MST; October 17, 2018, 10:34.
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Originally posted by Proteus_MST View Post
Well, if everyone defines his own terms, then noone will understand anything anymore.
I am, for example, sure that your (and other Trumpists) meaning for the term "logic" is different from the meaning it has for the rest of the world
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Originally posted by Kidicious View Post
We aren't talking about science. We are talking about logic, which you suck at worse than any person that I ever met. Only an insane person would still be claiming that words don't mean what the speakers of those words say they do.
I am, for example, sure that your (and other Trumpists) meaning for the term "logic" is different from the meaning it has for the rest of the world
How about this ... I define "standing" as "flying", "at" as "into", "chair" as "plane" and "table" as "WTC-Towers"
I fly on my plane into the WTC-Towers
totally harmless sentence, as I guess, every day millions of people also fly on their planes into their WTC-Towers as well
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Originally posted by Proteus_MST View Post
Actual definitions of words are very important, especially in science.
Even Trump would be able to tell you this ... if he actually had a "natural instinct for science" as he claims
(but of course he hasn't ... Trumps relationship to "science" is similar to the relationship of a congenital blind person to "seeing")
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Originally posted by Kidicious View PostA dictionary ATTEMPTS to give a definition of a word as people use it. Actual word meanings often diverge from dictionary definitions. This is the case. As I have shown people describe unborn babies as babies all the time. Therefore unborn baby is baby.
Even Trump would be able to tell you this ... if he actually had a "natural instinct for science" as he claims
(but of course he hasn't ... Trumps relationship to "science" is similar to the relationship of a congenital blind person to "seeing")
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A dictionary ATTEMPTS to give a definition of a word as people use it. Actual word meanings often diverge from dictionary definitions. This is the case. As I have shown people describe unborn babies as babies all the time. Therefore unborn baby is baby.
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Originally posted by Proteus_MST View Post
All dictionaries I looked up for "Baby" give it as a term for an already born child, not one in the womb:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dic...y/english/baby
He didn't say that it was a born baby. He claimed that it was a baby (no qualifier). He claimed that it is in the "developing and developed" group.
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