Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 hours agoA corner is an ontologically parasitic feature of a table that can't exist on its own.message-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down11
arrow-up1100arrow-down1message-squareA corner is an ontologically parasitic feature of a table that can't exist on its own.Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 hours agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareNaryaskant@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoYou don’t need corners to have a table (it can be round) But a corner cannot exist without features that form it.
minus-squareBilbo Baggins@hobbit.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·45 minutes agoIt would only be parasitic if a round table was forced to be square against its desires. If a table wants to be square, the corners are being helpful.
I mean isn’t that symbiotic?
You don’t need corners to have a table (it can be round)
But a corner cannot exist without features that form it.
It would only be parasitic if a round table was forced to be square against its desires. If a table wants to be square, the corners are being helpful.