2026-10-07 14:45 UTC
Vegetables, like shapes, and fish, have no objective definition which includes everything you would put into it but excludes everything you would reject from the group.
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@NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 2026-10-08 03:45
The lack of a universally agreed upon definition does imply the lack of an objective definition. And it also does not imply there isn’t a general definition that most people agree on that works in most cases. Almost all words have different meanings when you get into a specific niche. “Elastic” in casual contexts means stretchy, but in physics contexts, specifically describes a materials ability to return to it’s prior state after being stretched. But if I said “Elastic” lacks a definition in physics entirely, we wouldn’t run around saying “nothing is elastic”. Yet for some reason people do that exact thing with Vegetables/fish.