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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 "evi
by Y_Y 3y ago
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.
- jimwhite42 3y agoI 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/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sorites-paradox/