The Heap
Where exactly does the heap begin?
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The Heap
Put one grain of sand on a table. Not a heap. Add another. Still not a heap. Nobody can point to a grain where adding it turns a not-heap into a heap, yet after ten thousand grains you clearly have one. The same trick works on baldness, on being tall, on being old, on being drunk.
Where exactly does the heap begin?
Then ask
- Would you accept that some things are just genuinely fuzzy, or does that bother you?
- Where's the line on a word that matters legally, like 'adult'?
- At what point did you become an adult, if you can pick a moment?
The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.