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Originally Posted by westprog View Post
Think logically - how do we define something? It has to be in terms of something else. So either we define everything in a circle - so that nothing is defined to be anything in particular - or we have to have something irreducible that cannot, in principle, be defined.
Or, things boil down eventually to reference to other things which may very well be reducible.
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