• Bear@lemmynsfw.com
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    23 hours ago

    There is no dark without light. No silence without sound. No nothing without something.

    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      41 minutes ago

      People say shit like this, but it’s just not true. If darkness is the absence of light, then it’s dark so long as there isn’t light. If you observe a universe where there are no photons, it’d be dark everywhere. (it’d also not have the EM force, but let’s put that aside for now.) You can have darkness without light, but if you aren’t aware of light, then you simply wouldn’t have a word for darkness; you are confusing the conceptualization of thing with the thing itself. In my circles, we refer to this fallacy as confusing the map and the territory.