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Originally Posted by Tuna
In a way, though, it is infinite in length. I mean you can just keep getting more accurate and accurate with more precise measurements and that just expands the length of the coastline. This makes me question any distance ever measured and the concept of 'distance' as a whole.
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Yeah well that's kind of what I said in my post above. The coastline is just an arbitrary example of an argument that says nothing can really be accurately measured. I just take issue with the word "infinite" to define it rather than unmeasurable. The actual measure of an object/thing/whatever may be infinite, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the thing itself is. It just means that we don't have the means to define that end.
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