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Re:Inductive or Deductive? Rethinking the Fundamental Reason... by desumeku on Monday September 02, 2024 @10:35AM (#41425679)
Semantic word games aren't a crowd-winning form of argument.
Re:Inductive or Deductive? Rethinking the Fundamental Reason... by godelski on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:59PM (#41427481)
It's worse when you play that semantic game to make your point stronger (changing your original meaning) and willfully misinterpreting the other person. Everyone loves being willfully misinterpreted
Re:Inductive or Deductive? Rethinking the Fundamental Reason... by astrange on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @03:51AM (#41432392)
I don't think the concept of encapsulation in programming is a semantic word game.

Any part of a program can become a black box if you decide it is one (if you can figure out an interface anyway…), and that's good because it means you can swap it out.