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By their nature, all things are unique, depending on their framing. We make concessions because we don't all have infinite time. Which is to say, you can't hav
by moate 4y ago
By their nature, all things are unique, depending on their framing. We make concessions because we don't all have infinite time.
Which is to say, you can't have 2 apples, you can only have one very specific, singularly unique apple and another very specific, singularly unique apple. If you get pedantic enough, nobody could ever have anything because the word invented to describe the first thing wouldn't technically describe the second thing perfectly (as they're not the same) so as to render speech useless.
Either accept that "unique" is a word for the poets and not the mathematicians, or accept that it's entirely useless as a descriptor.