Is there a way to distinguish between arbitrary and non-arbitrary? Or is literally everything ever arbitrary?
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yetiftw@lemmy.world 10 months agojust because it has a reason doesn’t make it not arbitrary. you can ultimately come up with a reason for all arbitrary decisions
frezik@midwest.social 10 months ago
yetiftw@lemmy.world 10 months ago
literally every definition ever is arbitrary
frezik@midwest.social 10 months ago
Then what’s the point of even calling it arbitrary? If it covers everything, then there’s no reason for the word.
yetiftw@lemmy.world 10 months ago
that’s not true. there are things that are not definitions. like my bed for instance, there are aspects that are arbitrary (my personal preferences, design choices, etc) and aspects that are not arbitrary (its physical form that exists beyond definition)
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Do you not understand what the word arbitrary means?…
yetiftw@lemmy.world 10 months ago
maybe you’re the one who doesn’t understand the ramifications of its meaning