(December 19, 2022 at 10:18 pm)paulpablo Wrote: For example with a tree, I don't think there's an exact precise definition of when a dead tree stops being a tree or when a tree becomes a tree and stops being a seed.
It's a bit science-fictionish, but I can imagine a society which defines trees differently than we do.
We all know that a tree can't exist in isolation. There are no trees without soil, water, light, air, etc. A very ecologically-minded society might draw the boundaries differently than we do, and refuse to refer to a tree separate from its full panoply of necessary interactions. It doesn't work very well in English, but not every society uses the same terms we do.
