"girls" are usually more adjacent than men.

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 1:13 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> > An equation that captures the theory of
> > the adjacent possible is available.
>
> I have recently been reminded that Quine, in "On What There Is", posed the
> question (presumably rhetorical and/or tendentious; my reminder came in
> the form of just the following sentence with attribution but no other
> context, and I haven't yet been moved to actually look up that context)
> "How many possible men are there in that doorway?"  However many there
> are, I presume some are more adjacent than others.  Perhaps Quine's
> question should be revived to be about possible girls-next-door.
>
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