The Limit of the Car Is Not in Its Physical Quantities

You cannot find a fixed boundary between things. They are all pervious. There is one exception to this. Every carving out of existence is nominal. It's done by convenience. So it's not ontological. It reflects our convenience and not the actual states of affairs affairs in the world. That's what I was warning against, attributing conscious agency to everything we create a word for.

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