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What's a rock?

• bheadmaster 4y ago
  What's a "what's"?
  • ethanwillis 4y ago
    Well for either of us to know, we'd need consensus on language, meaning, words, etc.
    • edgyquant 4y ago
      Nope. The idea of describing an object is built in to humans and likely all mammals.
  • edgyquant 4y ago
    An inquiry for a description of an object. Nothing in language is difficult it’s finding the smallest abstraction to generate all the rules for all language that is. You’re asking a simple grammar question under the impression it’s an unsolved science question.
    • bheadmaster 4y ago
      No, I'm merely pointing out the absurdity of asking "what's X" to a needless extent. Everyone knows what a rock is. Everyone knows what I mean by "throwing two rocks on a pile of two rocks and getting a pile of four rocks" - almost everyone has done it countless times as a child. The "What's a rock" comment is just pointless philosophizing, masquerading as profoundness.