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Cake day: September 6th, 2023

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  • I suppose it helps to qualify what you say. But then it may become quite unreadable.

    Even “Today is Thursday” is questionable. Where is it today? Do you mean right now, right here? What calendar? Somewhere it’s already Friday. The “day” is just rolling around the earth, etc. It’s more defensible to say at the time of posting this it is Thursday in California.

    The philosophy people have a thing where you posit a thesis and then present counter arguments, and then counter these again (and, in medival time, counter the ones that are non-dogmatic once again to make sure you don’t get burned alive).

    The Chinese had a seven legged essay, I think it went back and forth 7 times, and the conclusion was left up to the educated reader, in contrast to scientific paper standard today where we explicitly state the conclusion.

    Exploring and to some extent preempting counterarguments may be helpful in any case.