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SPOTTEDGREENDUCK
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:47 am Post subject: Question |
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If you snap a stick in half, you have two sticks?
If you snap a dog in half do you have two dogs?
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Johannes
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:00 am Post subject: Re: Question |
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SPOTTEDGREENDUCK wrote: If you snap a stick in half, you have two sticks?
If you snap a dog in half do you have two dogs?
:think:
I guess it depends upon what you think. Do you believe that that stick is just that, a stick? It fell off a tree, does that mean that there are two trees? |
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thefranzkafkafront
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Location: Edinburgh University.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:25 pm Post subject: Re: Question |
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SPOTTEDGREENDUCK wrote: If you snap a stick in half, you have two sticks?
If you snap a dog in half do you have two dogs?
:think: This is a matter of lingustics the term stick dose not require the object to be anything more than a small leangh of cellulose.
Dog however requires it to be whole, you would have two halfs of a dog but not a whole dog. |
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Prog
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:45 am Post subject: Re: Question |
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SPOTTEDGREENDUCK wrote: If you snap a stick in half, you have two sticks?
If you snap a dog in half do you have two dogs?
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2 sticks; 0 dogs. |
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Korimyr the Rat
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: Question |
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SPOTTEDGREENDUCK wrote: If you snap a stick in half, you have two sticks?
If you snap a dog in half do you have two dogs?
Prog wrote: 2 sticks; 0 dogs.
One lunch, and a pair of chopsticks to eat it with. |
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Prog
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject: Re: Question |
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Korimyr the Rat wrote: SPOTTEDGREENDUCK wrote: If you snap a stick in half, you have two sticks?
If you snap a dog in half do you have two dogs?
Prog wrote: 2 sticks; 0 dogs.
One lunch, and a pair of chopsticks to eat it with.
:xx: .....vurp! |
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The Good Doctor
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| This is the kind of thing you can only learn thought experience. |
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Reform
Joined: 14 Aug 2005
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Location: Quite an experience to live in fear isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave
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2 pieces of tree
2 pieces of dog |
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Hot Soup
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| But really, who would WANT to snap a dog in two? |
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Kt
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hot Soup wrote: But really, who would WANT to snap a dog in two?
Or a better question yet, is it physically possible to "snap" a dog in two. |
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mojo
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Shim Eun-Ha wrote: Hot Soup wrote: But really, who would WANT to snap a dog in two?
Or a better question yet, is it physically possible to "snap" a dog in two.
haha
:lol: :lol: :lol: |
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Hot Soup
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Shim Eun-Ha wrote: Hot Soup wrote: But really, who would WANT to snap a dog in two?
Or a better question yet, is it physically possible to "snap" a dog in two.
I hope i'm not the one to find out. :xx: |
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