#ScribesAndMakers 13/9: How pedantic are you?
I dislike pedantry. It tends to lead to inaccurate statements and unhelpful criticism. I try to avoid it as much as possible.
However, a small number of things do work me up and I suspect make me annoying. Particularly the misuse of the word 'logical' to mean 'reasonable', or general popular misapprehensions about philosophy, such as misrepresentations about the analogy of the cave or the trolley problem.
Or AI. But arguably that's actually>
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