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Overnight Video: Symphony of Science - the World of the Dinosaurs

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iossarian3/21/2012 6:54:37 am PDT

re: #220 Obdicut

I don’t think people do understand what they’re talking about.

Maybe, maybe not. Inability to explain a concept to someone else does not necessarily imply that you don’t grasp it yourself (though it might be an indicator of such). Also, incomplete grasp of a concept by a person does not necessarily imply that the concept itself is invalid. The fields of mathematics and math education give fairly clear examples of this.

I don’t think non-communicatable things exist.

Well, I do, and since they’re non-communicatable, it’s not really fruitful to argue about it.