I don’t know how cruxy this is for the main points of the post. I did find this post quite helpful overall. I quite liked that the final section explored real world examples that showed where this actually mattered.
But fwiw I mostly had not been thinking of the squiggly bordered nations as a metaphor for squiggly bordered concepts. Or, maybe I had, but, also I think ‘where is this nations border?’ an actually important question. The section that just dismissed that as metaphor was fairly surprising and disappointing to me, since that was an objection I’d been particularly interested in. (In particular because it was the initial framing question for the post)
I don’t know how cruxy this is for the main points of the post. I did find this post quite helpful overall. I quite liked that the final section explored real world examples that showed where this actually mattered.
But fwiw I mostly had not been thinking of the squiggly bordered nations as a metaphor for squiggly bordered concepts. Or, maybe I had, but, also I think ‘where is this nations border?’ an actually important question. The section that just dismissed that as metaphor was fairly surprising and disappointing to me, since that was an objection I’d been particularly interested in. (In particular because it was the initial framing question for the post)