[ExI] The Reality of Categories

[Russell Wallace]

On 7/16/07, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Such a being would merely have to be precise about the changes from
> moment to moment, and accept that for practical purposes near enough
> is good enough. For example, it wouldn't get very far in engineering
> if it insisted on a tolerance of 10 decimal places when 3 decimal
> places would do.
>

Oh well that's fine, then I just give him a quick English lesson: "The word
'same' means 'difference is small enough to be ignored in the current
context'."
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