Parker Banks on Nostr: Jordan Peterson's "it depends on what you mean by X" always reminded me of my lazy ...
Jordan Peterson's "it depends on what you mean by X" always reminded me of my lazy rhetoric in high school debate club since the first thing you'd do in a debate is define your terms. My fastest way to win against someone who didn't know what they were doing was to quibble about definitions at the start until all the terms were defined in a way that was favorable to me, so that the rest of the debate was on autopilot.
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