Is a hot dog + bun... is it a sandwich?

[ricketyclik]

...a human isn't an ape, we're both primates.

I think you ought to look that up.

[Broken_Erika]

Humans are Chinchillas obviously! And Apes are Lobsters!

[Uncle Sparky]

Does this look like a sandwich?

[Dinner]

Humans are Chinchillas obviously! And Apes are Lobsters!

Does that mean apes taste great dipped in clarified butter?

[pchang]

What doesn’t taste great drenched in clarified butter?

[Dinner]

I yield to your superior argument.

[Dinner]

Tonight's dinner will be farm raised salmon from Scotland, Spanish rice, and steam veggies. I suspect some garlic bread will also be involved and probably a large container of ****-tastic wine will also be present.

[Lorizael]

Does this look like a sandwich?

Then why are you trying to **** it like a sandwich?

[Broken_Erika]

What???

[spambot]

If someone says "sandwich", you know they're not talking about hot dogs.

[The Mad Monk]

What???

I KNOW THAT ANIME!

[Giancarlo]

If someone says "sandwich", you know they're not talking about hot dogs.

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/...ich-51656.aspx

Uhhh maybe not... This looks atrocious. But a hotdog sandwich does exist.

Ever get heartburn looking at something? I just did.

Thread concluded. Lol.

[spambot]

To be fair, anything made with KRAFT Singles is going to be atrocious.

[Dinner]

Bacon wrapped hotdogs are the ****.

[The Mad Monk]

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.

Ah, but "open-faced" clearly modifies "sandwich". That is to say, the while "sandwich" is normally "closed", this one is "open" -- there is recognition that this is an exception, and the fact that it is an exception indicates that there is a rule regarding the state of "sandwichness" that is being excepted.

...

Besides, you can always "close" the open face face and eat it, um, normally.

Sloppily, but normally.