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What good is philosophy if you cannot explain it or defend it in concrete terms? Unless you are an isolated hermit pursuing knowledge for its own sake without any intention of passing it on to others, semantics will come into play at some point.
Semantics is annoying to many people (myself included), but in my case it is so because of a lack of ability on my part to explain or define exactly what I am thinking. "Come on, you know what I mean," isn't a valid response in a philosophical argument. What constitutes a logical proof? If you can poke holes in my argument through the wording of my explanations, this is probably indication that some sort of logical flaw exists somewhere.
Of course, we could simply argue that all of this is armchair philosophy and therefore inately useless to begin with, so who gives a fuck anyway.
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