Some of this is easier to link rather than try to explain www.reddit.com/r/etymology/...

One thing I have had a lot of disagreement with is "free as in freedom not free as in beer" As I understand it, that is the same thing. Which is what I am communicating in the previous screenshot. A wikipedia page lists a couple alternatives to more clearly understand their interpretation:

gratis vs libre no monetary cost (gratis) vs little or no restriction (libre) "Think free as in free speech, not free beer." "Think free as in libre, not gratis." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_...

The most direct translation from money to other things is time, and freedom. So what is in the previous post is non-comprehendable. Free has one definition.

If you research their predecessors, some of the earliest organizers of large amounts of mostly correct information, you'll find other interesting incongruities. Such as how the French have always had an issue with money words and freedom, archive.org/details/Cycl...

and the philosophers stone doesn't exist (or does it?), and y'know just a lot... but this is getting a tad off topic, isn't it? Point being: free = free, chaos =/= disorder/disruption archive.org/details/Cycl...

And to metaphorically indicate where I think that particular point is most confused, I don't make many edits on Wikipedia, but those I do are typically about minor but specific things. Such as this one, correcting Eris to Iris: (that *is* what the book says btw) en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

ICYMI: Eris is the goddess of strife, amongst other things. I swear I had read something where Eris and Nyx (night) were conflated but apparently not (in this dimension, wink) so I'm not sure what's up with that. Nevertheless, that all does fit, metaphorically, with the relation between Eris / Iris

& I do realize Iris in the original sense did not refer to... well, our eyes / sight, but I am definitely making that connection. In the sense that seeing, contrary to the idiom, is not believing. It often causes more problems. In the sense of ... prejudice and things of that nature

However, contrary to that (because few things are absolute) www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...