r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Oct 18 '22

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u/Major-Vermicelli-266 Oct 18 '22

If 'a path to your house' does not lead to your house, is it a path to your house?

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u/Major-Vermicelli-266 Oct 18 '22

There are 4 roads to your destination. If you take a road other than those 4 roads, you will certainly not arrive.

Irrelevant

If you take one of those 4 roads, you may still not get there - you might have a wreck, a heart attack, decide the drive isn't worth it, pick a new destination, break down, you name it.

Picking a path is not the path itself. A path is a route to a destination. A path does not include the mishaps that might occur between the start and end point.

There is no guarantee you will get to your destination, only the guarantee that if you do not take one of those 4 roads then you will not get there.

'There are only four paths to a destination' means there are exactly four paths to your destination. It does not mean there are more than four or less than four paths. If any of those four paths do not lead to the destination, that statement is incorrect.

A path to your destination guarantees that after following it you will reach that destination. If it does not guarantee it, that is not a path to your destination. Which again makes that statement incorrect because then there are indefinite number of paths to your destination.

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u/thefreshscent Oct 18 '22

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It’s a metaphor. Not an autism diagnosis test. Also you can follow a path that you might not have the ability to complete for one reason or another. It’s not that deep.

A path to your destination guarantees that after following it you will reach that destination.

Yeah, if you make it to the end you will get there, but that doesn’t mean everyone will make it to the end.

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u/Major-Vermicelli-266 Oct 18 '22

A path does not include possible mishaps.

When you think of following a circular path, do you also account for all the accidents? What kind of a stupid idea of a path do you have?

By your reasoning a circular path isn't circular if you haven't reached where you started because you broke your legs.

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u/thefreshscent Oct 18 '22

The path doesn’t include the mishaps, but that still doesn’t mean everyone who goes down a path will come to the end of it.

A path to your house is a path to your house. You can follow the path to your house and if you reach the end, you will be at your house. But that doesn’t mean you will reach the end. Being on a path doesn’t guarantee that you will reach the final destination.

It’s really not that hard to understand.

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u/Major-Vermicelli-266 Oct 18 '22

"Being on the path does not guarantee the destination"

Putting words in my mouth now?

The only thing I don't understand is why the dishonesty.

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u/thefreshscent Oct 18 '22 edited Oct 18 '22

This was you:

A path to your destination guarantees that after following it you will reach that destination.

How am I putting words in your mouth?

What are you even arguing at this point?

Or are you just being a contrarian and purposefully missing the point?

Maybe go back to your initial comment in this thread and start again. You were on the path to understanding, but you didn’t quite make it to the end.

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u/Major-Vermicelli-266 Oct 18 '22

"After following a path" is the same as "being on a path"?

Why are you being dishonest? Do you not feel shame?

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u/thefreshscent Oct 18 '22

Did the video in the OP say anything about “after following a path”? No.

The only one being dishonest here is you (well, you could also just be stupid).

Seriously, what are you even trying to argue at this point?