pSinigaglia

• pSinigagliaJun 6, 2015, 10:21 AM

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  on: The Cluster Struc­ture of Thingspace

  “Humans have ten fingers, Fred has nine fingers, therefore Fred is not a human” but the way we actually think is “Humans have ten fingers, Fred is a human, therefore Fred is a ‘nine-fingered human’.”

  What I actually thought reading this was: “Frodo is a nine-fingered Hobbit”...

• pSinigagliaMar 3, 2015, 1:24 PM

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  in reply to: Steve_Rayhawk’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 113

  In Azkaban is stated that Harry transfiguration of a thin cylindrical layer from the wall is fast because its volume is small. This seems to contradict your assumption.

• pSinigagliaJul 7, 2011, 6:59 PM

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  on: Prices or Bind­ings?

  I think this this is the quote you were looking for.