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If so, what triggered it and what was it like?

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[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just as an experiment, try to describe the taste of honey to someone who doesn’t know the sweetness, but be sure to demarcate against sugar.

And then imagine how much shared understanding there’d be.

You absolutely need experience at least in some limited ways to understand definitions or descriptions.

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