Wittgenstein’s Legacy: The Principles of the Private Language Arguments (2018)

Re:Wittgenstein’s Legacy: The Principles of the Private Lang... by ZoomZoomZoom on Saturday July 20, 2019 @07:01PM (#20488864)

So, one grain of sand is a heap?

If one cell is enough, than one atom is enough and so on. Then, nothing's really the same. But we use this notion because it's convenient, so we're back at the beginning.

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Re:Wittgenstein’s Legacy: The Principles of the Private Lang... by chernov on Monday July 22, 2019 @06:20AM (#20496680)

>So, one grain of sand is a heap?

"Is a single grain a heap" doesn't look like a paradox to me. A "heap" is just a word with an ambiguous definition. Once you define it, you'll have your answer :)

>Then, nothing's really the same

If that was the case, intelligence would've been impossible. We need similarities as well as the differences to be able to compare things (including abstract concepts)

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