Custard cannot be nailed to a wall

‘But is a blurred concept a concept at all?’ he imagined them objecting. ‘Is an indistinct photograph a picture of a person at all?’ he answered. ‘Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn’t the indistinct one often exactly what we need?’24 Fuzziness is not only a matter of concepts but of things. Custard cannot be nailed to a wall, not because the word ‘custard’ is vague, but because the sauce itself is not…

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