Re:Avoiding the Adjective Fallacy
by anigbrowl on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @02:27PM
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Consider imaginary numbers, which don't invalidate anything as such and have to be tidied away after you're done playing with them, but make an entire class of calculations much easier by providing a consistent way to deal with otherwise awkward problems.
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They don't change the existing parts of the language, they just enlarge its body. Imaginary numbers don't invalidate the other rules. In natural languages, if you learn the rules down to the last nit-picky detail, you will soon realize that it is no longer valid, sometimes within years, other times within decades.