A number of the theories in the article on holes seem to demonstrate the
difficulties you get into if you assume that language models the world,
and therefore are forced to account for holes as entities, as opposed to
the view that language talks about the world in terms of differential
categories. Pragmatically, holes can kill you, and there are legal
consequences for putting holes in the wrong place. An ontology that
could find a place (a hole?) for holes would have a significant hole in
it. (01)
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> I hate to prolong this thread by adding more, but I'd like to
> cite the book on holes by Casati & Varzi, which is summarized
> in the following article:
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> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/
> Holes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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> As I said many notes ago, if Cage's 4'33 had an opening sound
> followed by silence and then a closing sound, one could say
> it was a composition that included that period of silence.
> But if there is no sound at the beginning or the end, there
> is nothing but a silence that has no delimiters.
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> That would be like talking about an imaginary hole that is
> delimited by nothing but other holes. You can define such a
> thing, if you wish, but then you're not using the English
> word 'hole' as people normally use it.
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