The domains of humour and of ingenuity are continuous, without a sharp boundary: the jester is brother to the sage.
Most importantly, the example shows that we cannot draw a sharp boundary to distinguish some language as intrinsically poetic.
A sharp boundary separates the temperate sclerophyllous forests from the tropical and temperate rainforests of moister sites in the east.
But "orthodox" is a special case, because it suggests a sharp boundary between those who properly belong and those who are properly excluded, the way that "patriotic" can suggest a boundary between loyal citizens and something verging on traitors.
"One implication of the naturalness with which we divide cognitive labor," they write, is that there's "no sharp boundary between one person's ideas and knowledge" and "those of other members" of the group.
Meanwhile, these data have often no sharp boundary between clusters.
At x = 0, MGS showed a more sharp boundary.
Figure 2e shows the sharp boundary between collotelinite and semifusinite.
We may express this metaphorically as follows: the concept must have a sharp boundary.
In any case, naturalism seems to survive the absence of a sharp boundary.
To a concept without sharp boundary there would correspond an area that had not a sharp boundary-line all around, but in places just vaguely faded away into the background.
