Why should I?Why didn't AV reply to this post?
Why should I?
1) I'm only looking for two numbers.
2) It looks like he is basically agreeing with me.
3) He said we are not talking about bicycles, but I clearly am; and one bicycle in particular.
If he doesn't want to respect my OP, that's his prerogative; but I don't feel I'm obligated to answer.
Does it matter?
Let's say I'm a factory outlet, and I placed them there from inside the factory, just a few yards away.
If you're a factory outlet, can I be a steam engine?
QV please:I want to be a 747 that was magically assembled from the parts in a junkyard being randomly blown about by a tornado.
AV, if you aren't going to add anything of value, please go and play somewhere else. If you are going to post, play by the rules I laid down in the OP, okay?
This is the inverse of the philosophical conundrum known as The Ship of Theseus. The Athenians preserved the original ship of the hero Theseus for hundreds of years. As one board rotted or was infested with vermin, etc, it would be replaced with new wood. Eventually there was no original wood left on the ship. Is it still the same ship? If not, at what point did it cease to be the Ship of Theseus?
Another conumdrum, which combines the original Ship of Theseus with the inverse is "Which is the real Nick Chopper?" In the later Oz books, we learn that the Tin Woodsman was originally a real human being named Nick Chopper, who was cursed by one of the wicked witches. (I don't remember which one, but that's not important.) Under the curse, a missed swing of his axe took off an arm, and he had a tinsmith build him an artificial one. But the curse was not finished, and one by one he lost and replaced aAnd ll of his body parts until he was entirely made of tin.
In the meantime, the witch had made a golem or robot for herself, and every time Nick lost a body part, he would get it and would use it to replace the corresponding body part on her creation. So once the woodsman was all tin, the robot was all flesh -- Nick's flesh. So which was the "real" Nick Chopper?
Each of these versions of the conundrum has several proposed solutions, but there is no
QV please:
Physically the bike may either be 3 yearsd or over, as that is at least the age of the ones the parts were taken from.
The newly assembled bike is brand new.
What was Australia before it was called 'Australia'?BTW I think that the idea of creation ex nihilo (from nothing, rather than from pre-existent material) was developed in the early church as a response to the influence of Aristotle.
What was Australia before it was called 'Australia'?
Too simple. Too.... AV.Physically the bike may either be 3 yearsd or over, as that is at least the age of the ones the parts were taken from.
The newly assembled bike is brand new.
The fact that it suddenly gained a name did not alter what it was, AV. What point are you trying to make?
And, I'll ask again, how do you want me to measure the age of the bike?
I don't want you to measure the bike.That doesn't answer my question, AV.
What technique do you want me to use to measure the bike?
I don't want you to measure the bike.
I want you to take just the information supplied in the OP and answer with two numbers, not twenty questions.
I don't want you to measure the bike.
I want you to take just the information supplied in the OP and answer with two numbers, not twenty questions.
I don't want you to measure the bike.
I want you to take just the information supplied in the OP and answer with two numbers, not twenty questions.
Well?I have a lot containing 100 brand-new shiny bicycles that I leave sitting out in the elements.
After three years, they are rusty & dirty.
I then build a bicycle, using one part from each of the bicycles: a seat from one, handlebars from another, front tire from another, chain from another, etc.
Two questions:
- How old is the new bicycle physically?
- How old is the new bicycle existentially?
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