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Well, technically speaking, at least for a car, you can draw a pretty clear line. Your car is your car because it is registered in your name through a number so
by oAlbe 9y ago
Well, technically speaking, at least for a car, you can draw a pretty clear line. Your car is your car because it is registered in your name through a number soldered on its frame. Changing the frame would change that number and you wouldn't be driving the same car, at least from a legal point of view.
But yeah, is a zoo without animals still a zoo? Hard to say. Even without animals, a zoo would retain its potential to be a zoo. Meaning that you could put animals in it and would be back to being a zoo. Same thing can't be said about a restaurant, for example. You can put animals in a restaurant, but regardless of how good you can lock them in it's still not a zoo.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoIt's hard to say because it's not a yes/no question, and the most useful answer is going to be very context/state dependent. A zoo isn't a collection of animals - it's a social, financial, and cultural structure with associated buildings, signage, web site, and staff, that usually houses animals. If you lose the animals temporarily, you can keep the rest and still have a zoo. (This has actually happened during wartime evacuations.) If you lose everything, you have a former zoo. We have minds that put simple labels on complex relationships.