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by FabHK 3360 days ago
There are more people on earth than, say, kings. That's true, even though I can't enumerate all non-kings, and even if the set of non-kings is somehow ill-defined.
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Still not sure I follow. Set of non-kings is not ill-defined, not in the same way as set of numbers non-describable by any formal system is.
> Set of non-kings is not ill-defined, not in the same way as set of numbers non-describable by any formal system is.

Um... roughly the same. Is Robert Mugabe a king? Since we didn't give a clear and precise definition of "king" you can't really say.

No, my "ill-defined" means "will lead to contradictions if you look too closely", not "I haven't exactly specified what it means".