Well, the statement could still be true in the context of the simulation. You may not have bones that exist in the universe outside the simulation, but you still have “bones” within the simulation. The name “bone” as well as the names for specific bones would be accurate if those are the agreed-upon names within your simulated culture. Whether the bones need to physically exist in the most fundamental level of reality in order to be considered bones seems like an argument over semantics. They still possess the other typical characteristics of bones that our culture has decided bones are supposed to possess. In everyday practice, people assign objects to linguistic categories based on resemblance to a prototypical example, not by making sure they fulfill a list of necessary criteria.
Oh, I agree that “the statement could still be true in the context of the simulation”. Likely so, in fact, which is why we go down all the way to 0.005 from P(we all live in a grand ol’ simulation, in a simulation, in a simulation).
The whole survey was full of definitional quibbles. What is ‘supernatural’ etc.
Well, the statement could still be true in the context of the simulation. You may not have bones that exist in the universe outside the simulation, but you still have “bones” within the simulation. The name “bone” as well as the names for specific bones would be accurate if those are the agreed-upon names within your simulated culture. Whether the bones need to physically exist in the most fundamental level of reality in order to be considered bones seems like an argument over semantics. They still possess the other typical characteristics of bones that our culture has decided bones are supposed to possess. In everyday practice, people assign objects to linguistic categories based on resemblance to a prototypical example, not by making sure they fulfill a list of necessary criteria.
Oh, I agree that “the statement could still be true in the context of the simulation”. Likely so, in fact, which is why we go down all the way to 0.005 from P(we all live in a grand ol’ simulation, in a simulation, in a simulation).
The whole survey was full of definitional quibbles. What is ‘supernatural’ etc.