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Having spent a year or so at Forth Sector I have come to two conclusions: social enterprises don’t really exist and our social firms have no future. At this point I should go home, but you deserve an explanation.

The Sorites paradox is thus: in removing individual crystals, at what point is a mound of salt no longer a mound? The paradox talks in increments. The issue is about scale and structure. The interesting thing about mounds are actually the void spaces between crystals. They enable different configurations of crystals to find some stability. Structure emerges. Without these spaces, the mound wouldn’t work: the thing you don’t see couldn’t hold the structure together. This is about purpose and meaning.