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Say you are in the middle of building a house. The foundation has been built and they are framing it up. Is it a house?
by rhelz 3y ago
Say you are in the middle of building a house. The foundation has been built and they are framing it up.
Is it a house?
- nitwit005 3y agoNo
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- xwdv 3y agoNo, and if you accept it as a house then this is a recipe for developing a bad habit of leaving a trail of half finished projects in your wake.
- rhelz 3y agoCan you point at a house and say “I designed this house?” If the house didn’t have some kind of existence while you were even designing it, how could it be that you designed that, particular house?
- squeaky-clean 3y agoNo, because otherwise you wouldn't say "the foundation has been built". You'd say the "the house has been built". Does a house need a foundation? Yes. Is the foundation the same as the house? No.
- rhelz 3y agoBut you do say, “I am building a house.”
- squeaky-clean 3y agoSure, but you don't build a foundation and say "I have built a house." They're building a game engine, but it is not an actual engine yet. Just one core component.
- rhelz 3y agoIf what you are building isn't an actual house, or an actual game engine, then how could anybody claim they had build that particular house, or that particular game engine? If what you were working on--for the entire time you were working on it--was a completely different thing from a house or from a game engine, how could you clame to have built a house or a game engine? Putatively, what you were working on what an entirely different thing from the result.