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Re:A computational approach to emergence in complex multi-le... by Y_Y on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:18AM (#39590784)
You're totally right, and this exactly the sort of thing Wittgenstein set out to show. The trouble is that people have an idea of what a "heap" is and what "evil" is and what "knowledge" is and a lot of philosophy is concerned with pinning down those notions or at least saying something concrete about them.
Re:A computational approach to emergence in complex multi-le... by jimwhite42 on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:45AM (#39591093)
I think the Sorites paradox may point to something specific about these kinds of ideas, which is not shared with the meaning of things like evil or knowledge. There's a page on it on SEP: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sorites-paradox/