whatever it is, sounds good to eat. — Wayfarer
Perhaps our experience of trouts and turkeys is a false one, even though it's useful. Trouts, turkey, tables, stars, human beings, etc are not really wholes. Only subatomic particles are.
Anything we consider separate from something else is only separate within the scope of human perception. — Qurious
Only fundamental physical objects can be said to be simples without parts, as far as we can tell. — Marchesk
Turducken is a dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey. [Wikipedia]
If Turducken exists, then a trout/turkey must. QED. — T Clark
If it doesn't exist already, I can put together a trout/turkey in about 1/2 hour. There's a store down the street that sells both. I don't know any nearby source for lions or eagles. — T Clark
What counts as a simple is utterly dependent on what we are saying.
The rest of this thread is confusion. — Banno
Are people, rocks, stars actually objects or do we mistakenly think they are? — Marchesk
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