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Comment by keyle

16 hours ago

If you can't rebuke code today. You can't rebuke code tomorrow.

By induction that means either nobody can rebuke code or someone who can rebuke code can do that from the day they're born.

  • “can” has multiple meanings in English. It can express both epistemic (describing the world accurately as is) and dynamic (describing the capabilities and attributes of an object) modes. If used epistemically, then parent’s phraseology makes perfect sense since his epistemology makes no claim about an object’s variability across time.