/lit/ - Literature

If you show me a triangle, "look at this thing", and ask me how many sides I see and I say "four", instead of simply calling me out for being wrong and thinking my point of view is totally invalid, you could consider that, perhaps, I was looking at the square next to it and thinking that's what you meant.

My point is that, even though a triangle is never going to have 4 sides (by definition, that is, by convention on what the word triangle means), when there is a divergent opinion about it, it is not necessarily a faulty opinion, but a fault in communication. The triangle is a shit example, but in real life there are plenty of situations in which it doesn't matter how certain you are of your version, that doesn't necessarily mean the other is wrong in his view, considering his references for it are totally different from yours.