We do not have to meticulously caveat that when we discuss the concept of “night” we are not talking about the phenomenon of the Sun moving away from our position on the Earth disc to a point where mountains cast our current position in shadow but rather the phenomenon of the Earth rotating away from facing our current position towards the Sun in order to avoid “lying” to any Flat-Earth believers who are listening. In fact I don’t think discussions arranging a meeting with a group of Flat Earthers “tomorrow night” would require any such caveats or explanations nor incur any case of “lying,” despite what are presumably somewhat different conceptions of what “night” is. Such minor differences are for the purposes of such a conversation basically completely negligible.
We do not have to meticulously caveat that when we discuss the concept of “night” we are not talking about the phenomenon of the Sun moving away from our position on the Earth disc to a point where mountains cast our current position in shadow but rather the phenomenon of the Earth rotating away from facing our current position towards the Sun in order to avoid “lying” to any Flat-Earth believers who are listening. In fact I don’t think discussions arranging a meeting with a group of Flat Earthers “tomorrow night” would require any such caveats or explanations nor incur any case of “lying,” despite what are presumably somewhat different conceptions of what “night” is. Such minor differences are for the purposes of such a conversation basically completely negligible.
Again, I’m not talking about minor differences. Children care an awful lot about whether Santa Claus as usually defined exists. This is not small.