<story><title>The Cube Rule of Food Identification (2017)</title><url>http://cuberule.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jetrink</author><text>Sandwiches are like fascism. In &lt;i&gt;Ur-Fascism&lt;/i&gt;, Umberto Eco talks about the difficulty of defining the &amp;quot;know it when you see it&amp;quot; category of fascism. We start with a set of concrete examples and we seek to define the category based on the qualities shared by those examples. One example might have qualities A and B, a second B and C and a third, C and D. The first thing shares no qualities with the last, but they all belong to the same category by a kind of transitivity. Sandwich is an agglomeration of qualities that tend to cluster together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mark-wagner</author><text>In his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein&amp;#x27;s response to this problem are the concepts of &amp;quot;language games&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;family resemblance.&amp;quot; From &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;entries&amp;#x2F;wittgenstein&amp;#x2F;#LangGameFamiRese&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;entries&amp;#x2F;wittgenstein&amp;#x2F;#LangGameFam...&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Still, just as we cannot give a final, essential definition of ‘game’, so we cannot find “what is common to all these activities and what makes them into language or parts of language” (PI 65).&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; There is no reason to look, as we have done traditionally—and dogmatically—for one, essential core in which the meaning of a word is located and which is, therefore, common to all uses of that word. We should, instead, travel with the word’s uses through “a complicated network of similarities overlapping and criss-crossing” (PI 66).</text></comment>
<story><title>The Cube Rule of Food Identification (2017)</title><url>http://cuberule.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jetrink</author><text>Sandwiches are like fascism. In &lt;i&gt;Ur-Fascism&lt;/i&gt;, Umberto Eco talks about the difficulty of defining the &amp;quot;know it when you see it&amp;quot; category of fascism. We start with a set of concrete examples and we seek to define the category based on the qualities shared by those examples. One example might have qualities A and B, a second B and C and a third, C and D. The first thing shares no qualities with the last, but they all belong to the same category by a kind of transitivity. Sandwich is an agglomeration of qualities that tend to cluster together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwaltrip</author><text>And thus, upon this realization, the sandwich app developers became utterly distraught, tearing their clothing and covering themselves in ashes.</text></comment>