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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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