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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 21/11/2023 (self.newzealand)
submitted 1 year ago by absGeekNZ to c/newzealand
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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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[–] absGeekNZ 2 points 1 year ago

That is the point of the paradox, it is to highlight the fallacy. The fallacy is to assume a binary when there is a continuum.

The hipster example: When does stubble become a beard? At some point the hair gets long enough to be considered a beard, but when does this happen?

Just because there are two states at the end, doesn't mean that there are two states from a continuous observation point of view. There is a difference between showing a million people one picture each of a bunch of pictures (taken 10 minutes apart) and asking "stubble or beard?" And asking one person every 10 minutes "is it a beard yet?"