To say that 100 is close to 98.5 is reasonable, but should be stated with caveats. The scale is important. If we're comparing real numbers in the range 98 to 101, then the two are quite different. A similarity threshold should also be required.
In fact, how similar should two things be before they are considered close? In what dimensions should they be similar? The concept of similarity has been explored for larger objects like sequences of numbers, as in Galois connections, and variables, via the Pearson correlation, for example.
By what mechanisms are we reminded of things out of the blue, by seemingly stringy similarities? How is sameness represented in the brain? All very interesting. And I say to myself... what a wonderful search engine...
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