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One of the burning questions of our day. Answer, dammit!
Oh, poll is public so I know who to shun when in polite society.
Oh, poll is public so I know who to shun when in polite society.
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The answer is... no, because we don't want a hot dog to be a sandwich. But there is a family resemblance.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld -
Bunwich?I am not delusional! Now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go dance with the purple wombat who's playing show-tunes in my coffee cup!
Rules are like Egg's. They're fun when thrown out the window!
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'Wich hunt!Comment
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Definite thread winner.Originally posted by Aeson View Post
Of course it's not a sandwich, it's a hot dog.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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A hot dog is a hot dog... a sandwich is a sandwich
Case closed
Keep on Civin'
RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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The 'meat' part is a wiener. A wiener in a bun is a hot dog..There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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I will stick to a polish sandwich lol.For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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It is in the sandwhich family.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Dinner sez it's a sandwich. He, obviously, is a person of great refinement and knowledge.
Evolutionarily speaking, it's a descendent of Sandwich Awesomous, on the same taxonomical tree. While a human isn't an ape, we're both primates. Same thing for hot dogs and, for example, a PBJ. Both are sandwiches despite certain, minor, differences.
Next thing we know y'all will deny that an Egg McMuffin isn't a sandwich. Or a croissan'wich from Burger King. Along that path lies madness and set theory confusion.
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The important question is whether sandwiches are defined intensionally or extensionally. If the former, then there are necessary and sufficient conditions for ascribing sandwichness to an object. This is where you run into problems. Must have some product between two slices of bread--ah, but what about an open-faced sandwich or whatever? Whenever you try to pin down the essential characteristics sandwichosity, you run into tricky edge cases.
So you define sandwiches extensionally instead. This is the "know it when you see it" definition. The set of all objects identified as sandwiches tells you what a sandwich is. This seems unsatisfying, but it's also often the best you can do. Ideal, Platonic sandwiches don't exist in the real world; the real world is messy. If you want neat and orderly definitions, be a mathematician and take comfort in knowing that mathematics somehow lets you predict what's going to happen in the real world, despite its messiness.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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Yes, taxonomy is a fascinating subject. Don't know if it's *eye-poppingly* fascinating, BeBro, but fascinating nonetheless.
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I will grant that a hotdog is "technically" a sandwich. Also, an eggplant is "technically" a fruit. There many things that are "technically" correct, but wrong none the less.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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My three favorite hot dogs are the Tijuana dog, the Dodger Dog, and the Sonoran dogTry http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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