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To the effect that as they sailed on a westerly course round the southern end of Africa, they had the sun on their right—to northward of them. 108 When it comes to understanding the horizontal and vertical dimensions of landed islands (Africa) and islanded seas (Caspian), difference in size is inconsequential, whether between the one ocean basin and the many inland bodies of water or, as we will see, between the continental mainland and its attendant islands. 1 Is it that we believe we can walk all around the shore of an “island” and get back to where we started, but, in the case of continents and mainlands, we are not so sure?
In his study of the creation of islands, moreover, Darwin uses the placement of coral reefs on the globe in such a way as to pinpoint the movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates. A reviewer in Nature (1874) properly writes about Coral Reefs that the natural history of a zoophyte was brought into connection with the grandest phenomena of the globe . . 44 As Darwin notes, a fringing coral reef that surrounds a volcanic island in the tropical sea grows upward as the island subsides (sinks), thus becoming a barrier reef island.
7 One thinks of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, published in 1873, with its nicely named character Passepartout. The meanings of most words, not only island, often seem to dissipate a bit around the edges. In Methods of Logic (1952), the philosopher Willard V. ”8 A concept, writes the logician Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege in Foundations of Arithmetic (1884), must have a sharp boundary. If we represent concepts in extension by areas on a plane, this is admittedly a picture that can be used only with caution, but here it can do us good service.