I don't disagree with this in general principle, but "how many straws can you remove from a bale" points pretty transparently to the failed mapping between our

I don't disagree with this in general principle, but "how many straws can you remove from a bale" points pretty transparently to the failed mapping between our black-and-white language and the shades-of-grey world. It's a shallow insight and to refer to it as an "unsolved problem" feels very strange to me. What depth am I missing?