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It is an example of the sorites paradox: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sorites-paradox/

This is not to say that it is a pointless distinction, but trying to make it a sharp distinction probably is.

I once saw a CS student ask for homework help on Reddit, with a question premised on the course material's attempted formalization of "high level" and "low level" programming languages as a partial ordering based on machine-translatability from one language to the other. The terms "level n" and "level n-1" were being bandied about. Another instance of adding confusion by trying to sharpen the definition of terminology that is probably most useful when it remains fuzzy.

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