Hmm,interesting, I'm not sure if I agree about this. I think that if they all have different-coloured roofs, I would still be OK to say that each of them is unique in being the only blue one etc. (But clearly it's a non-interesting type of uniqueness.)
The reason being that say you have 100 distilleries, and 99 or them are blue, 1 is red: clearly here the red one is unique. Or if all 100 are different colours, then in your system the red one is not unique. But what about the cases between these extremes? -- if 98 are different colours but 2 are blue, is the red one unique or not? If 50 are different colours and 50 are blue? Etc. It would seem hard to avoid either absurdum or an abitrary grey area of crossover.
Mm, answering non-English speakers' questions about it makes you realize how complex and subtle these meaning shades can be. I miss Swiss friend Ori for that, she speaks several European languages fluently so was great at suggesting culturo-etymological reasons for variations.
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Hmm,interesting, I'm not sure if I agree about this. I think that if they all have different-coloured roofs, I would still be OK to say that each of them is unique in being the only blue one etc. (But clearly it's a non-interesting type of uniqueness.)
The reason being that say you have 100 distilleries, and 99 or them are blue, 1 is red: clearly here the red one is unique. Or if all 100 are different colours, then in your system the red one is not unique. But what about the cases between these extremes? -- if 98 are different colours but 2 are blue, is the red one unique or not? If 50 are different colours and 50 are blue? Etc. It would seem hard to avoid either absurdum or an abitrary grey area of crossover.
Mm, answering non-English speakers' questions about it makes you realize how complex and subtle these meaning shades can be. I miss Swiss friend Ori for that, she speaks several European languages fluently so was great at suggesting culturo-etymological reasons for variations.