poll 1: how many holes does a straw have?
- two23.7%
- one57.8%
- zero7.4%
- NO SUCH THING AS A HOLE11.1%
3,330 votesFinal results
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poll 2: how many holes does a straw have if you close up one end of it?
- one58.6%
- zero35.2%
- negative... one...???0.8%
- STILL NO SUCH THING5.4%
1,671 votesFinal results
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poll 3: how many holes does a bowl have?
- one30.1%
- zero55.1%
- depends on how tall it is6.3%
- FUCK HOLES8.5%
1,632 votesFinal results
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poll 4: how many holes do you have?
25.1%- s... seven???28.8%
- millions???31.4%
- AAAAAAAAAGH14.8%
1,415 votesFinal results
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poll 5: how many holes does a hollow sphere have (e.g. a soccer ball)?
- one16.1%
- zero70.3%
- idk lol5.8%
- YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS7.9%
1,197 votesFinal results
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poll 6: how many holes does a hollow sphere with a puncture have (e.g. a soccer ball that landed on a spike)?
- two8.9%
- one61.4%
- zero22.1%
- I HATE YOUUUUUUU7.5%
1,140 votesFinal results
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this wikipedia article is awesome
"Animal bodies tend to contain specialized holes which serve various biological functions,"
"The formation of holes is a significant event in the development of an animal"
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"Holes have also been described as "ontologically parasitic" because they can only exist as aspects of another object.[12] The psychological concept of a hole as a physical object is taken to its logical extreme in the fictional concept of a portable hole"
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I have a weak intuition that most concepts might be usefully approached this way.
Anyone have good examples of concepts that are "ontologically fundamental" for contrast?
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the hot take is that there aren't any but i think there's a big gap from sort of intuiting that and really believing it
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there is a good SEP entry on holes here plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/ and david & stephanie lewis' infamous holes paper is pretty funny here rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3
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"It is difficult to explain how holes can in fact be perceived"
lol
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I've been told that there's a hole in the bottom of the sea. And that there's a flea on the speck on the frog on the bump on the branch on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea. I've never seen it myself, but I know that it's true.
