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> If your definition for thought diverges here, please try to specify how exactly: what is thought, then?

This is a burden-shifting reply of "so prove me wrong!" to anyone who feels that your assertion lacks sufficient justification for it to be taken as an axiom.

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The original commenter also made a random assertion: "doing math is not thinking." The person you're responding to attempted to provide a definition of "thinking."

The original commenter's comment does not contain this claim. I suppose it could have been edited, though by the time I saw it, I believe the window for editing had closed.

Neither what lisper actually says nor what hans1729 replied with are random assertions, and, furthermore, they are each entitled to assert whatever axioms they like - but anyone wanting others to accept their axioms should be prepared to assume the burden of presenting reasons for others to do so.

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