You also wouldn't say that a surface that could be dried by wiping wasn't wet if it had water on it, but claiming that any surface in contact with water is wet insofar as it is not water implies that.
You also wouldn't say that a surface that could be dried by wiping wasn't wet if it had water on it, but claiming that any surface in contact with water is wet insofar as it is not water implies that.
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cattywampas@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 73d
Water is wet because we call it wet
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 73d
This is actually the best argument I've heard on this.
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 73d
And a hot dog is not a sandwich because most people don't call it a sandwich.
The definitions of words are based on how we use them for efficient communication. They don't exist to fit into perfectly neat, logical, consistent boxes.
Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 73d
Also because sandwiches are a different shape. Hotdogs are a type of taco
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 73d
Hot dogs are not tacos because we don't call them tacos.
Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 72d
Agreed, I just like being a dick for my own amusement sometimes
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 72d
I do.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 72d
We don't?
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 72d
You guys call breadycocks "hot dogs"? That's weird.
BC_viper@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 72d
Crazy, thats what I called your mom last night.
jade52@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 72d
How high are you
cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 72d
I don't do drugs! They aggravate my mania.
db2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 72d
If I was working at a molecular level to notice that I certainly would.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 72d
Take a grain of sand from a heap. Is it still a heap of sand? Probably.
Take another grain, then another. Keep going until it’s no longer a heap. Could take a while, but you’ll get there eventually. When exactly?
When you do, you’ve learned how much these fuzzy definitions suck.
cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 72d
The most formal definitions of heap generally concur that the heap would persist until it were empty.
edit: And/or dereferenced from the user's memory