escarpment, 24 days ago @shekinahcancook @meltedcheese Ah I see, good point. You seem to be pointing out the issue of "theory laden-ness", that our minds heap so much subjectivity or "theory" on even "mundane" facts that it's hard to find a truly objective, theory-less truth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory-ladenness 2008 and 5768 are both arbitrary, if widely agreed upon, labels for years that depend on theoretical presuppositions about how and when to start counting years.
@shekinahcancook @meltedcheese Ah I see, good point. You seem to be pointing out the issue of "theory laden-ness", that our minds heap so much subjectivity or "theory" on even "mundane" facts that it's hard to find a truly objective, theory-less truth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory-ladenness
2008 and 5768 are both arbitrary, if widely agreed upon, labels for years that depend on theoretical presuppositions about how and when to start counting years.