Metaphysical Musings

This is an abstract post, about a philosophical problem I have been seeking to solve. Such are the thoughts of a thinker! As soon as we name and define things, we exclude everything else. Say that we name and define coffee tables. We have now excluded all other types of table -- not to speak of animals and oceans and galaxies and so on. But how much do we really exclude? That is the question. This becomes important where big data seems to think of everything, and include everything. OBSERVATION: It is important because names and definitions give us control. How much lies beyond our control -- even in an age of big data? I tend towards an a priori answer: everything we name and define -- no matter how closely we define it -- excludes its mirror image. Half.