{"id":104878,"date":"2016-11-16T09:05:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=104878"},"modified":"2016-11-16T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:10:15","slug":"heap-not-heap-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/heap-not-heap-news\/","title":{"rendered":"When a Heap Is Not a Heap, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_104879\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tailings_pile_from_gold_mill_which_was_abandoned_in_the_1930s_-_nara_-_543836.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104879\" class=\"wp-image-104879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tailings_pile_from_gold_mill_which_was_abandoned_in_the_1930s_-_nara_-_543836.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tailings from a gold mill abandoned in the 1930s.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/word-of-the-year\/word-of-the-year-2016\" target=\"_blank\">The <em>Oxford English Dictionary<\/em>\u2019s Word of the Year is <em>post-truth<\/em><\/a>, and if I have to tell you why this is good and smart and funny, well then you can crawl right back into your hidey-hole, young man. Being a dictionary, they\u2019ve provided a definition for the adjective: \u201crelating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.\u201d And a history: \u201c<em>Post-truth\u00a0<\/em>seems to have been first used in this meaning in a 1992 essay by the late Serbian American playwright Steve Tesich in\u00a0<em>The Nation <\/em>magazine. Reflecting on the Iran-Contra scandal and the Persian Gulf War, Tesich lamented that \u2018we, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some post-truth world.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In China, meanwhile, the word on the lips of officialdom is <em>comrade<\/em>. President Xi Jinping would like to bring the term\u2014<em>tongzhi<\/em>, in Chinese<em>\u2014<\/em>back in vogue for the ninety\u00a0million members of the Communist Party; it went out of fashion during the eighties, as Westernizing influences swept in. But there\u2019s a problem, as Amy Qin reports: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/16\/world\/asia\/china-comrade-tongzhi-gay.html\" target=\"_blank\">Among gay men, however, <em>tongzhi<\/em> became a term of affection and solidarity and eventually a catchall label for sexual minorities<\/a>. A gay and lesbian film festival held annually in Hong Kong has been called the\u00a0Hong Kong Comrade Film Festival\u00a0since 1989. And the Beijing center for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people calls itself the Beijing Tongzhi Zhongxin\u2014or the\u00a0Beijing Comrade Center. Even Google has caught on. Enter the characters for tongzhi guanxi\u2014literally \u2018comrade relationship\u2019\u2014into its translator, and it gives you \u2018gay relationship.\u2019 \u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In our \u201cpost-truth\u201d world we\u2019d do well to remain aware of the paradox of vagueness, which has only been troubling us for several millennia. Timothy Williamson recalls the ancient thought experiment: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/on-vagueness-when-is-a-heap-of-sand-not-a-heap-of-sand\" target=\"_blank\">Imagine a heap of sand. You carefully remove one grain. Is there still a heap? The obvious answer is: yes<\/a>. Removing one grain doesn\u2019t turn a heap into no heap. That principle can be applied again as you remove another grain, and then another \u2026 After each removal, there\u2019s still a heap, according to the principle. But there were only finitely many grains to start with, so eventually you get down to a heap with just three grains, then a heap with just two grains, a heap with just one grain, and finally a heap with no grains at all. But that\u2019s ridiculous. There must be something wrong with the principle. Sometimes, removing one grain\u00a0<em>does\u00a0<\/em>turn a heap into no heap. But that seems ridiculous, too. How can one grain make so much difference? That ancient puzzle is called the\u00a0<em>sorites paradox<\/em>, from the Greek word for heap.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Academics have trained a machine-vision algorithm to judge a book by its cover, or, if you prefer their more precise language, \u201cto predict the genre of a book based on clues provided by its cover.\u201d Breathe a sigh of relief: the robots are still not as good at this as people are, so we have something to be proud of. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2016\/nov\/15\/book-cover-design-algorithm-genre\" target=\"_blank\">Using almost 140,000 covers, downloaded from Amazon along with the books\u2019 genres\u2014the academics used a possible twenty, from photography to romance\u2014the network was first trained and then tested to see if it could pinpoint the titles\u2019 genres<\/a>. The algorithm listed the correct genre in its top three choices over 40\u00a0percent\u00a0of the time and found the exact genre more than 20 percent of the time. That\u2019s significantly better than chance.\u201d If only \u201cbetter than chance\u201d were an acceptable standard for human abilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Greif urges us not just to inveigh against normalizing Trump, but to accept that in this scenario the presidency may have no practical use, and that we should do without it: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/election\/no-president\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reading historical parallels, I feel it is far better to <em>overreact<\/em> at a moment that sets up the means for tyranny, than not to react<\/a>. Better\u00a0to seize hold of the abnormal, than turn violation into the normal. It is always better not to seat tyrants, not to have an inauguration, not to make it that far, than to try to undo things once a tyrant has\u00a0hold of the levers of violence. The important thing with a tyrant is not to seat him at all\u2014even at the expense of unfairness to an individual who might have become better than his word. Having seen the slogan and heard the chant, \u2018Not My President,\u2019 I feel the slogan should instead be \u2018No President.\u2019 Not only is Trump no president in attitudes and beliefs, but in effect we should decide we do not have a president, through the paradox of the legitimate election of an illegitimate officeholder. In fact, for America to learn if it can get along without a president, in 2016, might be the most valuable thing we\u00a0<em>could <\/em>do<em>.<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford English Dictionary\u2019s Word of the Year is post-truth, and if I have to tell you why this is good and smart and funny, well then you can crawl right back into your hidey-hole, young man. 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