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Yes but it affects how other people comprehense it. Imagine making laws based on the idea of virtue from Aristotle.


I'm imagining. Then what would happen?


You will need a percise definition of virtue and end up using the muddled complex intellectual frameworks. You may have no problem understanding the virtue concept with simple words because you grew up with it, but people with different environments may understand a different thing.


They may, but the wonderful thing about discourse is that in most cases you don't need to rebuild everything from raw signals processing on up. You just need to find the first common layer of agreement and build from there.




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