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koakuma-chan 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenAI O3-Mini

As someone else said in another thread, if you could derive the definition from a word, the word would be as long as the definition, which would defeat the purpose.

ninetyninenine 3 months ago [–]

Im not saying words. Im saying labels.

You use words as labels so that we use our pre existing knowledge of the word to derive meaning from the label.

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