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Few human concepts have strict, definable "boundaries". Things might seem obvious at first ("I know it when I see it", as stated by the US supreme court). You can take a concept, move its seemingly obvious properties into the extreme, and observe how the boundaries become blurry.

What is a car? Four wheels? What if you move two of those wheels closer together until they almost merge into one. What is a country? etc.



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