• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    I didn’t make my argument clear, for sure.
    The initial person called the dry fruit a seed.
    Then the other person countered with an example of a fruit with a single seed where you don’t call the whole fruit the seed. But importantly they didn’t establish why the first person should consider those two things the same. The first person simply didn’t accept that the dry fruit was a fruit in the first place, so using another, typical, fruit for example isn’t going to help.

    My example was trying (ineffectively) to show that it appears as an apples/orange comparison unless you already understand.

    But now, despite explicitly saying I know that a strawberry isn’t a berry in my original reply, I’m being told that I’m disagreeing with science, rather than with their example.