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Re: [jboske] individuation and masses (was: RE: mass, group,

At 06:19 AM 12/20/02 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
And Rosta scripsit:

> Ah, an 'intrinsic boundary' is one you can see 'from the inside'
> -- the nature of the object is such that you can determine where
> it ends without looking at the world around it.

Ah. Does the intrinsic boundary of a snail include or exclude its
shell, then?

The intrinsic boundary of a female teenager (and perhaps all children) extends to the range of her senses - the whole world centers on her, with the exception of parents (and sometimes boyfriends), who are "other". %^)

lojbab

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