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23 Aug 2011, 11:58 pm

mimsytheborogove wrote:
9. I have 60 shoes.


I assume you mean thirty pairs?

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10. I am sincerely concerned about the environment, but can't stop drinking bottled water.


Well if it's distilled then at least it's probably cleaner than tap water.



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24 Aug 2011, 12:15 am

blitzkrieg wrote:
mimsytheborogove wrote:
9. I have 60 shoes.


I assume you mean thirty pairs?


Yep.

blitzkrieg wrote:
mimsytheborogove wrote:
10. I am sincerely concerned about the environment, but can't stop drinking bottled water.


Well if it's distilled then at least it's probably cleaner than tap water.


Cleaner yes, but all those plastic bottles....



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24 Aug 2011, 7:36 am

shrox wrote:
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8. I don't "get" the phrase the whole is greater than the sum of its parts


Imagine a car. Now imagine that car all taken apart. Put the parts in a pile and you get a pile of metal and plastic parts. Assemble the car and you get a working car, far more useful that the same parts in a pile. Thus, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

I still don't get it. A car is the sum of its parts. I don't get the usefulness thing. If anything, assembling a car means reducing lots of different things that have many potential uses to one thing which has very few potential uses, which would mean that the whole is less than the sum of its parts. Am I missing something??? :help:

EDIT: I think what I mean is - a car gets its usefulness from its parts. Its the usefulness of its parts that make the car useful. But the individual car parts have more potential uses than the car itself. If that makes sense.