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by slantaclaus 379 days ago
I remember in college I got all stoned in the library and determined that you could find a semantic pathway using synonyms to relate completely opposite terms with only a few nodes. Completely blew my mind and I still think about it sometimes.
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do you use the concept in any useful way?
It reminds me I guess that language can be deconstructed and reconstructed at will and that words are tools, not necessarily determiners of truth. And that the problem of philosophy is the problem of language. So no, not really
It's true!