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This makes no sense. It's like asking: "Alice is in Denver. Is Alice in (a) Canada or (b) Mexico?" - Your boundary between Canada and Mexico is at 40°
by seemaze 5mo ago
This makes no sense. It's like asking:
"Alice is in Denver. Is Alice in (a) Canada or (b) Mexico?"
- Your boundary between Canada and Mexico is at 40° latitude, more southern than 53% of the population.
- phaedrus 5mo agoSomeone should make a parody site asking whether shades of yellow are red or violet.
- miltonlost 5mo agoYour example would only be valid if "blue" and "green" had objective answers for when something is Blue and something is Green and have clear demarcated boundaries. You're switching to a literal boundary example where there are actual lines to be crossed. Colors are a fuzzy continuum; national boundaries, not including fought-over areas like the Sea of Japan, are easy to be in or not.
- Rapzid 5mo ago> Colors are a fuzzy continuum Denver is teal, the USA blue-green. Canada is Blue, and Mexico is green. Their analogy is pretty on point.
- TZubiri 5mo agoYou are confusing geographical position with countries. Countries are not a continuum, they start and end at some specific line defined by constitutions, mutually agreed by neighbours (or disputed through war and diplomacy) Colours have no such incentive for strict unified definitions, so there is no point at which blue ends.
- philipwhiuk 5mo agoThese days the US border might be a fuzzy continuum ;)
- hmokiguess 5mo agoI recommend this reading: https://empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-i/ https://empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication-of...
- TZubiri 5mo agoWow, crazy to see someone thinking there's an official objective color definition
- Sohcahtoa82 5mo agoWhat if it was phrased differently? Rather than asking "Is this blue or green?", it's "Does this look more blue to you, or more green to you?" Because then your analogy becomes "Is Alice closer to Canada or Mexico?"