Anything that’s not a true x isn’t x at all, it just resembles it. That’s why the ‘no true Scotsman’ fallacy is a fallacy. For example, ‘bugs’ that aren’t ‘true bugs’ aren’t bugs at all, they just look enough like bugs that laypeople would call them bugs despite being a different kind of insect (or if the layperson is being especially flexible with what they’re calling a bug, potentially not even an insect). Saying glass isn’t a ‘true solid’ is literally the same as saying it’s not a solid, but with the added implication that lots of people get it wrong. There’s also a common myth that glass is really a slow-moving liquid. You said something that is literally the exact opposite of the truth in a thread about scientific facts that sound up but are 100% real, and landed on something that gets commonly repeated as a surprising fact, so of course people are going to correct you.
I never said they were liquids either… just not true solids. More like saying that CRT’s are different from flat panels.
Anything that’s not a true x isn’t x at all, it just resembles it. That’s why the ‘no true Scotsman’ fallacy is a fallacy. For example, ‘bugs’ that aren’t ‘true bugs’ aren’t bugs at all, they just look enough like bugs that laypeople would call them bugs despite being a different kind of insect (or if the layperson is being especially flexible with what they’re calling a bug, potentially not even an insect). Saying glass isn’t a ‘true solid’ is literally the same as saying it’s not a solid, but with the added implication that lots of people get it wrong. There’s also a common myth that glass is really a slow-moving liquid. You said something that is literally the exact opposite of the truth in a thread about scientific facts that sound up but are 100% real, and landed on something that gets commonly repeated as a surprising fact, so of course people are going to correct you.