RE: Tooth Fairy Bullshit
January 17, 2017 at 7:28 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2017 at 8:27 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(January 17, 2017 at 7:11 pm)Mathilda Wrote:(January 17, 2017 at 6:35 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Yet the rules that apply to warcrafts "world", don't apply to the people that created it, correct?
Your whole argument relies on equivocation of what is meant by rules, reality, worlds etc.
I hate to break it to you but World of Warcraft is not real. It's a game. Specifically, it's a computer program. It exists as a collection of hardware and software working deterministically using very simple operations on a vast number of electrical and magnetic states. There is nothing in principle different between WoW than Excel yet you don't call Excel a reality.
World of Warcraft exists within the laws of nature. What you are referring to as rules and a 'world' is nothing more than a series of calculations relying on matter and energy.
WoW is real in so much that it has value and people can interact with it.
If the creators of wow were able to imbue the any of the characters with free moral agency and self awareness, then that character would perceive that world as it's reality even though it's nothing more than computer code.
We perceive our world as "reality" even though 99.9 percent of it is empty space. As the saying goes, if you remove all that empty space, you would be able to compress all of humanity into the size of a sugar cube...
(January 17, 2017 at 7:22 pm)Asmodee Wrote:(January 17, 2017 at 6:35 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: So you're going to argue with a damn dictionary/thesaurus?Balaco is a fucking dictionary??? I knew there was something off with him, but I had no idea he was a damned book!
You responded to me AND Balco in the same post, I'm only referring to your response to me.
(January 17, 2017 at 7:22 pm)Asmodee Wrote: Did I give any definitions? Did I quote any dictionary or any thesaurus? Or did I give a real-life example to show that common usage is not as you say?
But yeah, I can argue with a dictionary for you. Mind if I borrow yours? I'll use your dictionary.com link to look up both words.
Belief:
1.
something believed; an opinion or conviction:
a belief that the earth is flat.
2.
confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof:
a statement unworthy of belief.
3.
confidence; faith; trust:
a child's belief in his parents.
4.
a religious tenet or tenets; religious creed or faith:
the Christian belief.
Faith:
1.
confidence or trust in a person or thing:
faith in another's ability.
2.
belief that is not based on proof:
He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.
3.
belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion:
the firm faith of the Pilgrims.
4.
belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.:
to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty.
5.
a system of religious belief:
the Christian faith; the Jewish faith.
6.
the obligation of loyalty or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement, etc.:
Failure to appear would be breaking faith.
7.
the observance of this obligation; fidelity to one's promise, oath, allegiance, etc.:
Let's see here. Belief....one, two, three, four... Faith...one, two, three, four, five? Six?? SEVEN??? Four isn't seven! Maybe I'm misunderstanding what "no difference" means. Should I look up the words "no" and "difference" for you next? Because I see quite a difference here. Maybe I'm stupid. I'm sure that's probably it. But it just doesn't look to me like there is "no difference" between one word with 4 definitions and another with 7.
Wait... so your method of determining if a word is synonymous is whether or not it has the same number of references?
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