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adamjnavarro670
Tuesday, May 28 2024

#philosophicaldigression

Doesn't vagueness have some, or at least one, sharp boundary condition even if it's fuzzy? For example, one grain of sand isn't a heap ("a disorderly collection of objects placed haphazardly on top of each other") while two grains of sand seems unclear if it is. Therefore, one gain of sand is a sharp boundary for 'heap,' namely that it isn't a heap.

The lesson takes lower boundaries of ambiguities like 'some' and says it has a sharp boundary and vague concepts like 'heap' as having a fuzzy boundary, but thinking of what would constitute a lower boundary for 'heap' seems like it would be a sharp boundary in the same way as 'some' has a sharp boundary. For upper boundaries, this distinction between sharp boundaries and fuzzy boundaries might be different and I think probably is. Yet, in this lesson alone, given the two examples, lower boundaries between the two aren't exactly different in the way it's making it out to be .

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adamjnavarro670
Thursday, Jun 27 2024

Well at least we know it's not something on our end, with our accounts, and they need to fix it. Hopefully soon it will be resolved.

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