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> For example, you can't name the exact time that day becomes night, but it doesn't follow that there is no distinction.

There is actually a very detailed set of definitions of the multiple stages of twilight, including the last one which defines the onset of what everyone would agree is "night".

The fact that a phenomena shows a continuum by some metric does not mean that it is not possible to identify and label points along that continuum and attach meaning to them.



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