A Conversation for Modifying the Word 'Unique' and the Number '0' - Can It Be Done?
Some things are more unique than others
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Started conversation Dec 21, 2008
At least, some things are unique in more senses than others. The chair in which I am currently sitting is unique. It is unique in that there is no other chair in this precise situation, with this chair's exact history, and with this chair's exact grain of timber. But it's not unique in many senses. In fact, there are five other chairs almost exactly like it in the same room.
Everything is unique in some sense. And if you look hard enough, you'll find that sense (even protons are unique, if only in terms of their position). And that renders the word all but meaningless. What reason is there to describe an object as unique, if all objects are unique? So, when we call something unique, what we actually mean is that it is unique in very many ways. And that is certainly modifiable. I like to think that I am fairly unique.
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