Boundaries

Realise that a central theme of this blog is actually boundaries and specifically the question of whether a boundary can be defined with terms derived from what is bounded. Put another way is the garden fence part of the garden or the outside world.

This is the centre of the SRH issue also. When we refer to something is that reference inside or outside the thing? Can a reference be internal to the thing referenced?

So it raises question of what "internal" and "external" mean and how they might be defined.

I'm reminded of an old conundrum. We can agree that we can put things on the table. If there is a glass on the table we can agree that the glass is not the table and vice versa. The question is where the boundary then between the glass and the table occurs. What we will agree is something like there is a row of atoms that are glass and an adjacent row of atoms that are table. The point is that a boundary is actually a pair of boundaries with "nothing" in between. A boundary is not a single entity - or that entity is actually NULL. Yet by implication of that NULL boundary we then define to substatial adjacent boundaries one on either side.

Conclusion at least Boundaries are very complex entities!