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Neither a superset or subset of a thing is the thing. Only the thing is the thing.

But when you combine units of language the result is not just the sum of the parts. word1 means X and word2 means Y but established phrase "word1 word2" rarely means X + Y. The result relates to X and Y but it has a life of its own that depends on how it's used.

Think of these and how they are more than sum of their parts. Demo scene. Serverless. Skyscraper. Information security. Artificial intelligence. Drawing board.




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