By what standard does a difference become a significant difference? — Wosret
We can of course consciously, deliberately construct categories, but we'll just be trying to formalize our intuition, rather than actually describing a literal ubiquitous feature. — Wosret
Thing is though, that a comparison for difference and similarity has to be crisp in my view. — Wosret
Oh, I don't know what's what. I'm just saying ideas and positions I like more, or find more satisfying. Definitely not claiming to know what I'm talking about her. I'm just thinking out loud. — Wosret
All of this leads to unpalatable places, in my view. — Wosret
Yeah, it's all part of its meaning. They definitely form each other's meaning relationally, but the relation itself is abstract, and applicable to many things with zero physical, or structural similarities themselves. Is then, up down left and right just shit we made up? — Wosret
I've still going to have to think about what you've said more, do a little reading on the subject before I get back to you. — Wosret
Well, right, left, up down are all positive things. "not-me", "not-us" and "not-shit" are not, and could really conceivably be anything at all except for me, us, and shit.. — Wosret
Positivity doesn't exist unless it's in the company of negativity. So if we're just dealing with 2 dimensions, left and right are negatives of one another. It's more complicated if we add that third dimension. — Mongrel
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