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"Mmm... no, it is possible to be indifferent between two things you want.  I could want a cube and a sphere equally, but prefer a triangular pyramid to both."  What kind of language lacks a word for the regular tetrahedron... well, okay, to be fair Keltham can see how that would fail to come up a lot in everyday life.

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"Mmm... no.  We will say it is possible to be indifferent between two things you want.  I could want a cube and a sphere equally, both labeled 2, but prefer a triangular pyramid to both, since it's labeled 4."  What kind of language lacks a word for the regular tetrahedron... well, okay, to be fair Keltham can see how that would fail to come up a lot in everyday life.

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"Mmm... no.  We will say it is possible to be indifferent between two things you want.  I could want a cube and a sphere equally, both labeled 3, but prefer a triangular pyramid to both, since it's labeled 4."  What kind of language lacks a word for the regular tetrahedron... well, okay, to be fair Keltham can see how that would fail to come up a lot in everyday life.

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"Mmm... no.  We will say it is possible to be indifferent between two things you want.  I could want a cube and a sphere equally, both labeled 3, but prefer a triangular pyramid to either, since it's labeled 4."  What kind of language lacks a word for the regular tetrahedron... well, okay, to be fair Keltham can see how that would fail to come up a lot in everyday life.

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"Mmm... no.  We will say it is possible to be indifferent between two things you want.  I could want a cube and a sphere equally, both labeled 3, and decline to spend my time to trade either one for the other; and then also prefer a triangular pyramid to both, labeling it 4."  What kind of language lacks a word for the regular tetrahedron... well, okay, to be fair Keltham can see how that would fail to come up a lot in everyday life.

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"Mmm... no.  We will say it is possible to be indifferent between two things you want.  I could want a cube and a sphere equally, both labeled 3, and decline to spend my time to trade either one for the other; and then also prefer a triangular pyramid to both, labeling it 4."  What kind of language lacks a word for the regular-tetrahedron... well, okay, to be fair Keltham can see how that would fail to come up a lot in everyday life.