Weinberger: The Tragedy of Coloring Books

David Weinberger:

And then you come to coloring books that train kids to see the world as edges to be filled in. Put down your crayons, kids. I have bad news: There are no outlines in the world, only swaths of color that are themselves fractally multi-hued.

The problem with describing knowledge using formal logic? Formal logic is based on well defined concepts, concepts with well defined edges. We define concepts by much more flexible means than if (properties x, y, z are true of object) then object is a whatever.

We're back to this problem which I previously commented was not quite "the symbol grounding problem". There we are, it's the colouring book problem.