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  • DaveMA
    1·
    7 months ago

    Yeah I have an issue with the heap paradox. It’s not that there are two states, heap and not heap. There are three. Heap, not heap, and an in between murky state where you could consider it a heap or not a heap and each interpretation could be valid. The fact you cannot identify whether it’s a heap or not does not change that if you start with something that is very clearly a heap then remove one grain, it’s still clearly a heap.

    If you change a couple of words in a book that at the time were not considered an issue but now they are, I think that’s clearly not censorship. There’s a grey area one you start pulling out more, but I think we still have a “clearly not censorship” state.

    • absGeekNZOPEnglish
      2·
      7 months 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?”