I think I began studying philosophy seriously in 1987 when Optimus Prime died seemingly for nothing at the hands of Megatron. Twenty years later I finally earned a Master’s degree, but I never did work out whether it was Hot Rod’s fault for intervening in the fight or Optimus Prime’s for not taking the shot when he had the chance. Consequently, these days I am quite the cocktail purist. The one real regret in my life is that I once saw someone order a gin martini on the rocks and I did absolutely nothing to stop it.
Thank you, Daniel Kelly, for such a meaty question! Why is this a question? It seems to be a question different in kind from the seemingly similar question, ‘Is a convertible a car?’ Here, seemingly, in asking if a thing described by one word belongs to a set of things described by another word, we […]
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