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"Do chairs exist?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXW-QjBsruE

Perhaps the desk is "chairing" in those moments.

[EDIT] A little more context for those who might not click on a rando youtube link: it's basically an entertaining, whirlwind tour of the philosophy of categorizing and labeling things, explaining various points of view on the topic, then poking holes in them or demonstrating their limitations.



That was a remarkably good VSauce video.

I had what turned out to be a fairly satisfying thread about it on Diaspora* at the time:

<https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/65ff95d0fe5e013920f200...>

TL;DR: I take a pragmatic approach.


I knew this was a vsauce video before I even clicked on the link, haha.

Vsause is awesome for mindboggling.




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