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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (10 children)

To be fair, knowing 10000 things is far from knowing everything.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So in Chinese traditions "10000" is just a stand in for "really big number". Kind of like how, at least here in the states, well say "there's a million of them". Not that there is literally 1,000,000 of the thing, but more there is just a lot of them.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If words count as things, then most people know way more than that.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Even concepts can easily surpass that

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