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Originally Posted by HarryT
On the contrary, it's an inescapable consequence of the statement that listening to a book is the same activity as reading it. It's an elementary application of formal logic: if "A" and "B" are equivalent, then any conclusion resulting from "A" must also result from "B".
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Of course they are not the "same activity," and I am unaware of anyone claiming that. The claim is that whether one absorbs the content visually or aurally, one is reading.
If I say simple arithmetic is mathematics, and calculus is mathematics, does that mean that simple arithmetic = calculus?