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Question: What is a table? |
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Replies: 16 Last Post April 28 2:43pm by Blackadder
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Iban
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A construct used to support objects to a more comfortble position.
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6:42 am on Jan. 11, 2008 | Joined Dec. 2007 | 21 Days Active Join to learn more about Iban Florida, United States | GLBT Ally Male | 400 Posts | -381 Points
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Hosko
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The word 'Table' is an English Noun referring to an object used in western culture throughout history for the support of paper for writing, food consumption, and many other human tasks. A table is usually recognised with having a lower support (commonly four 'legs'), that lead up to a wider, flat base used solely for storage or support, it is often made out of wood, metal or plastic, with many designs and styles.
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1:02 pm on Jan. 11, 2008 | Joined May 2006 | 406 Days Active Join to learn more about Hosko England, United Kingdom | Straight Male | 4270 Posts | 8709 Points
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Prince o palities
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An object which possesses exclusively all the qualities of tableness and no others.
------- "It is the wrong question to ask, and therefore, as one might expect, has no right answer." - Hans von Campenhausen This is the philosophy of my life.
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Hosko
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Quote: from Heavenly Eve at 2:55 pm on Jan. 15, 2008
Quote: from Hosko at 4:02 pm on Jan. 11, 2008
A table is usually recognised with having a lower support (commonly four 'legs'), that lead up to a wider, flat base used solely for storage or support, it is often made out of wood, metal or plastic, with many designs and styles. 
Chair? 
I'm not sure where your going with this but objects are what people perceive them to be, if someone tells your your sitting on a table, you will then go and find a chair, because that is proper. Crazy, but true.
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9:32 am on Jan. 15, 2008 | Joined May 2006 | 406 Days Active Join to learn more about Hosko England, United Kingdom | Straight Male | 4270 Posts | 8709 Points
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Quote: from Heavenly Eve at 2:54 pm on Jan. 15, 2008
Quote: from john cena54 at 10:50 am on Jan. 11, 2008
1. item of furniture with flat top: a piece of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, used for placing things on or doing things at 2. table for food: a table at which people sit to eat meals, or a similar structure provided outdoors at which birds may feed 3. flat surface for particular purpose: a raised flat surface with a nondomestic or office use, for example one at which a surgeon operates or one on which a piece of machinery rests 4. food served: the food provided in a household or restaurant in terms of its quality or quantity 
1. not all tables have legs, it can just be a block. 2. With that, alot of things can be "tables" 3. That's can be a desk... and also, they do not HAVE to be "tables" 4. That can be pretty much anything o.o 
You can't exclusively define a table. They can serve multiple purposes, and those purposes overlap. I can do everything on my lap that I can do on a table.
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Blackadder
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Quote: from Prince o palities at 4:46 pm on Jan. 15, 2008
An object which possesses exclusively all the qualities of tableness and no others. 
at best, thats a very clever way of saying absolutley fuck all. (its pretty obvoius that a cat would never be anything but a cat to be called and considered a cat) at worst it is compleltly incorrect. suppose I have a magical table, that has all the qualities of a table, yet, if it should ever choose to do so (this table has a mind of its own) can transform into a non-table (eg, an Ipod) is it a table? --yes? is haveing a mind and a the ability to transform into Ipods the qualities of normal tables? --no? then how can it be a table? (i'm using your defintion of a table)
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mejones
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Aristotelean logic anyone? What is the function of table? The function is for one inanimate object to hold up other inanimate objects. But it must be able to hold up all phases of matter not just say solid hats like a hat rack. It should be stable and hard to knock over, and function as a good place to eat, being comfortable to be around. So this function is tableness, or the form of table and anything that adheres to it closely is table. Least way I think that is how he would answer it.
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