What academic field answers this question: Is “what’s it matter?” a mashup of “what difference does it make” and “why does it matter?” Is it linguistics, English, anthropology, sociology, other? #AcademicSky - ThreadSky

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jeremy-data.bsky.social • 75 days ago

What academic field answers this question: Is “what’s it matter?” a mashup of “what difference does it make” and “why does it matter?”

Is it linguistics, English, anthropology, sociology, other? #AcademicSky

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statstas.datascience.blue•75 days ago

The field that answers “what’s it, matter?” is either physics or material science.

jeremy-data.bsky.social•75 days ago

Yeah but that is not what I am asking

professorfreddy.bsky.social•75 days ago

Vinnieology

robbmontgomery.com•75 days ago

Journalism

jeremy-data.bsky.social•75 days ago

🤔

ekoski1.bsky.social•65 days ago

Journalism: What does Trump say matters? Melania: Doesn't to me. U???

jonmason.bsky.social•75 days ago

Existential philosophy… in some contexts 🙂
Not many questions exist without context

jeremy-data.bsky.social•75 days ago

haha, yeah but my question is a about the questions not the answers to them 🙂

jonmason.bsky.social•75 days ago

I can see that … I did my PhD thesis on the “why” dimension

jeremy-data.bsky.social•75 days ago

ah ok. Do you have a similar example?

jonmason.bsky.social•75 days ago

So lots of things to see in your initial question … it’s kinda framed as a binary. I got interested in ‘why’ questions because of their ambiguous semantics & disposition toward further inquiry & dialog

jonmason.bsky.social•75 days ago

And the way that explanation gets distinguished from information

ekoski1.bsky.social•65 days ago

Philosophy: "What is it to matter?" or "What is mattering?"

ergative-abs.bsky.social•75 days ago

linguistics

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