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I'm not understanding what the conflict is between being able to locate a thing and that thing being available for use.
I didn’t say able to locate I said there being a list. But in that case being able to locate is a better term. And I didn’t say available I said freely available, which is an important distinction.
If a thing’s existence always includes a route to finding it, that constrains its existence. Barriers in adding to the list, or in whatever finding mechanism you use, become barriers to the creation of an instance of that thing.
That’s one problem. There are others too, but if we can’t agree on this one then we’ve no hope of discussing the others.
Are you confusing comments?
I see this in the referred comment:
While the word "list" does not appear.
But mostly I think we should try to read the message, not focus on single words.
Okay. Anything else?
Like, do you need me to break down what happened there for you? Are you asking whether I made a mistake because you don’t know, or … for some other reason?
Yes. I made a mistake. I think it’s weird you’re behaving as if you need me to confirm that, but sure. I thought I said “list”, and didn’t. Oops. Fortunately for me I never lie and hence it didn’t matter if I remembered what I said because I immediately recognized that “locate” is better terminology despite thinking it was your wording not mine so … are we good on that?
What were you gonna say in terms of responding to the message?