Monday, December 23, 2019

Charles takes on the puffy, fluffy stuff

What counts as bread? What counts as cake? Charles ponders the surprisingly thorny question of how to define terms like bread, cake, and even cracker. In doing so, he brushes by—albeit without mentioning it—the Wittgensteinian concept of family resemblances.



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