/sci/ - It's fucking over. People on other forums are unab - Science & Math

Anonymous

03/20/26(Fri)07:49:42 No.16932066

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Anonymous 03/20/26(Fri)07:49:42 No.16932066 Archived

It's fucking over. People on other forums are unable to understand the difference between the word "potential" used in a physics sense and "potential" used in the way it is commonly used in casual conversation. And get uppity about it.

>he has the potential to hit 40 home runs this season!
>the explosive potential of this liquefied natural gas is this

Anonymous
03/20/26(Fri)10:35:57 No.16932109

Anonymous 03/20/26(Fri)10:35:57 No.16932109

actually there's at least a weak equivalence between all uses of any given word, you're just autistic

Anonymous
03/20/26(Fri)11:35:03 No.16932132

Anonymous 03/20/26(Fri)11:35:03 No.16932132

>>16932066
>unrealized ability to do work
Looks like the normies understand it just fine. The casual concept is a predicate and the formal is necessary but that's generally how casual and formal notions differ because casual concepts refer to much more complex real life systems while formal concepts are limited to simple and easy to understand toy models.

Anonymous
03/20/26(Fri)14:46:50 No.16932199

Anonymous 03/20/26(Fri)14:46:50 No.16932199

>>16932066
they can't even understand "well regulated" in the 1700s vs "well regulated" in their modern day radical leftwing government bootlicker tongue

Anonymous
03/20/26(Fri)17:13:41 No.16932249

Anonymous 03/20/26(Fri)17:13:41 No.16932249

>>16932109
What's the equivalence between the pot you cook in and the pot you were obviously smoking when you made this post?

Anonymous
03/20/26(Fri)22:47:36 No.16932375

Anonymous 03/20/26(Fri)22:47:36 No.16932375

>>16932249
Either can get you cooked

Anonymous
03/21/26(Sat)10:37:10 No.16932548

Anonymous 03/21/26(Sat)10:37:10 No.16932548

>>16932066
>this person has the potential to hit 40 home runs, but hasn't yet
>this force has the potential to do work, but hasn't yet
what's the problem?

Anonymous
03/21/26(Sat)11:14:21 No.16932559

Anonymous 03/21/26(Sat)11:14:21 No.16932559

OP is unable to comprehend this abstraction. Sad.

Anonymous
03/21/26(Sat)22:48:12 No.16933030

Anonymous 03/21/26(Sat)22:48:12 No.16933030

>>16932066
You have to get over it. Words can have different meanings in different contexts. For example, the word "whale" has a certain meaning when used colloquially, but when used by biologists it means "large fish".

Anonymous
03/23/26(Mon)04:51:43 No.16933565

Anonymous 03/23/26(Mon)04:51:43 No.16933565

>>16932066
The person who made this thread is unable to articulate the difference they are complaining other people don't understand.
Its totally not projection, though, they just didn't need to explain the difference to know that other people don't understand the difference.

Anonymous
03/24/26(Tue)23:44:15 No.16935033

Anonymous 03/24/26(Tue)23:44:15 No.16935033

>>16932066
my balls are full of potential.

Anonymous
03/25/26(Wed)03:53:29 No.16935104

Anonymous 03/25/26(Wed)03:53:29 No.16935104

>>16932066
this board can't handle highschool level jargon without getting uppity about it because it is populated by know-nothing dropouts.You would need a skill filter to fix that

Anonymous
03/25/26(Wed)15:27:38 No.16935358

Anonymous 03/25/26(Wed)15:27:38 No.16935358

>>16933565
demonstration by ontology. You are the retard that doesn't get it. Thank you for your service.