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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4923036" data-attributes="member: 177">Let me try it this way.&nbsp; Do note that this is an analogy, not a full-blooded detailed metaphor.&nbsp; I don't intend that one of these flavors is exactly one of the editions, or anything that picky.One person is allergic to strawberries, or otherwise really doesn't like them.&nbsp; To this person, there's a load of difference between chocolate and strawberry.Someone else may feel that, really, ice cream is ice cream.&nbsp; Milk, cream, sugar, churned and frozen - that's the essence of it.&nbsp; The differences between the flavorants are negligible, a note so minor that they don't impact his experience of ice cream.The second person may well claim that the two are the same, because for all the intents and purposes he sees, they are the same.&nbsp; The first disagrees.&nbsp; In the best of all possible worlds, these two people still don't get in each other's faces.&nbsp; They do not need to agree that chocolate and strawberry are or are not the same in order to get along.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 4923036, member: 177"] Let me try it this way. Do note that this is an analogy, not a full-blooded detailed metaphor. I don't intend that one of these flavors is exactly one of the editions, or anything that picky. One person is allergic to strawberries, or otherwise really doesn't like them. To this person, there's a load of difference between chocolate and strawberry. Someone else may feel that, really, ice cream is ice cream. Milk, cream, sugar, churned and frozen - that's the essence of it. The differences between the flavorants are negligible, a note so minor that they don't impact his experience of ice cream. The second person may well claim that the two are the same, because for all the intents and purposes he sees, they [I]are[/I] the same. The first disagrees. In the best of all possible worlds, these two people still don't get in each other's faces. They [i]do not need to agree that chocolate and strawberry are or are not the same[/i] in order to get along. [/QUOTE]

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