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endoself comments on Sequence Exercise: "Extensions and Intensions" from "A Human's Guide to Words" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: endoself 18 April 2011 08:55:33PM 0 points [-]

I picked apple because it was the farthest from a true definition. For the others, I think one could use them in an 'if-and-only-if' manner and not be objected to.

hand-shoes

a piece of wire shorter than it was wide

I really want to see both of these things now.

Comment author: Alicorn 18 April 2011 09:22:32PM 1 point [-]

A piece of wire shorter than it was wide would just be a very small disk. Imagine cutting a wire into little slices.

Comment author: endoself 18 April 2011 09:32:55PM 0 points [-]

Oh, I had assumed that the piece of wire was supposed to be performing some wiry function, since I would describe this case as "some wire" but not as "a wire".