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Re:How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by happytoexplain on Friday July 02, 2021 @12:44PM (#27713841)
>you can look at them

All of them at once??

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Re:How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by wyager on Friday July 02, 2021 @12:46PM (#27713875)
Thankfully, due to the principle of object permanence, it suffices to look at them one at a time.
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Re:How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by ivanbakel on Friday July 02, 2021 @12:56PM (#27713979)
And you're able to look at all of them, one at a time? The plural of anecdote is not data.
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Re:How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by wyager on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:07PM (#27714096)
The plural of datum is data, and when you look at something that produces a datum.
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