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Maria Tellez's avatar

Practicing epoché in this debate

Santiago Tellez's avatar

A sandwich can be caused without bread. What is bread? What is a filling? If I get hooked up to a simulator and experience through all senses making and eating a PB&J, was that a sandwich? The planes don't need to be on top of each other - if I put a sandwich on its side is it a sandwich? If I throw it? What if there's no gravity, no top? What if there's no one making it? If I have bread bacon lettuce tomato in my grocery bag and brake at a red light and everything goes flying and lands perfectly on top of each other, is that a sandwich? Can a sandwich exist without a chef or someone eating it? Can a sandwich stop being a sandwich over time? Is time real? Sir Edward Sandwich died for this

Maria Tellez's avatar

That's the 4th Earl of Sandwich to YOU.

Ana Tellez's avatar

You know what bread and fillings are. The sandwich in a simulator is just as real as it is in your dreams. Sandwich on its side is still a sandwich. It’s a 3d object so of course I can flip it around. But on earth and with gravity it is right side up normally. If you throw it and it falls apart it is no longer a sandwich. In the same way that if you crush a sandcastle it is no longer a sandcastle, just sand. Yes a sandwich can exist without being eaten in the same way a movie can exist without bring watched. Yes it can exist without a chef. The causes are all loose, they aren’t strict guidelines. The efficient cause is the least fundamental of all actually. Time is relative. Sandwich is not.

Maria Tellez's avatar

A tamale is NOT a sandwich. It is connected.

Ana Tellez's avatar

If a tamale is made to be masa, filling, then more masa stacked evenly on top and no curved edges, no masa wrapping around the filling…is it a sandwich????

Maria Tellez's avatar

I think it is both at the same time.

Ana Tellez's avatar

I say no. I think Santi would say yes.

Maria Tellez's avatar

It is a sandwich with no sandwich-ness