Hey Terry,
If it does not float it's not a boat, that is, it does not fit the
conception of a boat. In your example you show how a boat can represent
different conceptions of speed, beauty, style etc., but once it no
longer affords floating the structure itself, will represent a boat,
fast one, stylish one etc.
Best,
*Yoád David Luxembourg *
BA (DAE <http://www.designacademy.nl/>,2004), MA (MAHKU
<http://www.mahku.nl/>,2006)
Ph.D (University of Porto <http://www.up.pt/>, 2015)
Creative Direction at Elementum by Daniela Pais
<http://www.luxuryistohavesimplethings.com/>
LinkedIn <http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/yoad-david-luxembourg/5b/95a/69a>
On 23-1-2016 14:39, Terence Love wrote:
> First, though, is testing whether a statement that claims to be a definition of something has the structure that is sufficient for it to be a definition of that thing rather than simply a statement or comment about some aspect of it. That testing of structure is*all* my previous post was about. I suggest the issues you point to are parts of different discussions about definitions.
>
> Put into the language of boats. The design of a boat may involve many aspects of beauty, speed, efficiency, style, carrying capacity, different classes of cabins. I'm asking a different and simpler but still important question 'Does it float?'
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