How many pickles are in this photo?

I have some giant dills.....I've also got some lettuce, tomato, bacon, cheese....

I'm considering trying to make a replica of that little guy in the front.....for science.

Gotta go get my hungries worked up....brb
 
mcblink said:
I follow you, but I'm having to think extra hard now...
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And, of course, it is only right that you think extra hard.

Philosophical considerations which ponder, "When is a Pickle a pickle?", may seem whimsical to some.

However, it explores the deeper, existential, and...perhaps...solipsistical considerations of one's own relationship to the larger dialectic.

For, if we consider the value of the individual only to the extent with which the individual maintains its connection to the overarching collective, we risk devaluing the individual persona sola. Expressed in another way, is it consistent with the ethic of "qui in se verum est" ? Or, we may may ask it yet another way, "Can the pickle...who is wholly pickled,..be excluded from considerations as a pickle, simply because it is separated from the larger pickle?"
 
Exactly.

These ponderies have very much deeper implications, even though the surface of the question is simply about pickles.

It's like how the word "man" refers to our entire species, and also refers to any individual example of a male.

I am both man, and a man.
 
mcblink said:
Exactly.

These ponderies have very much deeper implications, even though the surface of the question is simply about pickles.

It's like how the word "man" refers to our entire species, and also refers to any individual example of a male.

I am both man, and a man.
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You're catching on, man!
 
smitty_p said:
And, of course, it is only right that you think extra hard.

Philosophical considerations which ponder, "When is a Pickle a pickle?", may seem whimsical to some.

However, it explores the deeper, existential, and...perhaps...solipsistical considerations of one's own relationship to the larger dialectic.

For, if we consider the value of the individual only to the extent with which the individual maintains its connection to the overarching collective, we risk devaluing the individual persona sola. Expressed in another way, is it consistent with the ethic of "qui in se verum est" ? Or, we may may ask it yet another way, "Can the pickle...who is wholly pickled,..be excluded from considerations as a pickle, simply because it is separated from the larger pickle?"
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Stop it! I was a philosophy major! You're bringing it all back man!
 
So if one pickle, can morph into several pickles just by slicing, it can't be a new type of cloning.
Since cloning produces exact copies, like a Xerox machine does for print.
So it must be more like having a new litter of pickles every time you slice one.
 
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