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by 998244353
738 days ago
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> Some of the ideas he partially helped popularize like the concept of language shaping how we think has been pseudo-scientific nonsense that is still actively harming society today. While the idea of language literally changing the way you think is probably not true, I think the weaker version of limiting the thoughts you can express is still interesting. What's the use of having revolutionary thoughts if it is literally impossible to articulate them in any meaningful way to anyone else? Anyway, while the book is a cautionary tale, it's still science fiction at the end of the day. Orwell can hardly be blamed for people taking the Newspeak stuff too seriously. |
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Are you referring to this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability
"Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur."
> not true...
Are you referring to this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_(logic)
"In logic, false[1] or untrue is the state of possessing negative truth value and is a nullary logical connective. In a truth-functional system of propositional logic, it is one of two postulated truth values, along with its negation, truth."