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But a pair of chopsticks is meant to be held in one hand, and picking up food with one chopstick per hand is clumsy at best (since the sticks are at opposing an
by comex 9y ago
But a pair of chopsticks is meant to be held in one hand, and picking up food with one chopstick per hand is clumsy at best (since the sticks are at opposing angles rather than near-parallel).
How about knives and meat, where the non-dominant hand’s knife is used in place of a fork? That would definitely require having one utensil in each hand. Seems a bit crude-mannered for erudite philosophers, though...
- yorwba 9y agoThe point is that chopsticks are interchangeable resources, unlike forks and knives, and you usually need two of them to eat, unlike forks. The story makes sense for me if you assume that the dining philosophers aren't going to use one chopstick per hand, but they have to pick up one to the left and one to the right before they can put two in one hand.