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[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 164 points 3 months ago

Bikes have no windows and can move. There doesn't seem to be any correlation whatsoever. Fascinating

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 87 points 3 months ago

By that logic it's the wheels that make both the car and the bike move.

Which isn't...entirely wrong, but I wouldn't say it's correct.

I know! Let's try putting wheels on a house

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 90 points 3 months ago
[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

Which can move! Ho-ly shit. There might be something to this "wheel."

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Tell that to rats and gerbils.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

.... Those things move all the time

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[-] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago
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[-] Huschke@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

You're on to something. Boats have steering wheels and they can indeed move.

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[-] Hyphlosion@donphan.social 5 points 3 months ago

What if bikes DO have windows, but every time you’ve seen a bike, the windows were just rolled down?

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Bicycles is my favorite greek philosopher

[-] cornshark@lemmy.world 115 points 3 months ago

Ducks have wings and can fly. Ostriches have wings and can't fly. So it's not the wings that make the ducks fly, it's something else entirely.

[-] KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 61 points 3 months ago

This is what ancient greek philosophy is like

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Deep thoughts.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Perfect example on why the reasoning in the OP is rubbish, even if reaching the right conclusion.

[-] BluesF@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

An appropriate deduction might be "Cars have windows and can move, houses have windows and cannot move. The presence of windows alone is not what allows the car to move."

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Ah, but youre still making unreasonable assumptions that the house can't move. Perhaps the house just chooses not to move.

[-] BluesF@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A fair point - here's a generalisation. W denotes windows, M the ability to move, a and b are two objects for which their possession of windows and ability to move (or otherwise) is known, and x is some other object.

(W(a) ^ W(b)) ^ (M(a) ^ ¬M(b)) -> ¬(W(x) -> M(x))

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

That works better; the conclusion is practically useless due to the amount of combinations that wouldn't allow the car to move, but at least it's reliable.

Going past that would require messing around with things that don't move until they do, or vice versa. Also known as science.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Previously known as natural philosophy

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

All I know is that the ocean can't fly and geese come from barnacles, so it's not the ocean that makes geese fly.

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 57 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think it's kind of hilarious some of the insanely close conclusions some ancient philosophers got to being correct.

For example, Xenophanes observed that there were fossils of fish and shells, and correctly concluded that Greece was at one point underwater. He also had a bunch of insane claims on top of that, but the underwater part was correct.

His teacher, Anaximander actually said humans came from fish, which is hilariously close to correct despite the incorrect reasoning.

Empedocles is probably the most interesting. He concluded that humans and animals originated from these disembodied organs, which found each other and would form wholes. The catch was that many weird forms came about, like people with heads in the center of their bodies, and any other creation you can think of from just slapping animal organs together. He asserted that the forms which were unfit for life died out, leaving only the ones which worked to continue living. Empedocles almost describes a concept adjacent to multicellular organisms forming from single-celled symbiotic relationships (obviously Empedocles didn't know about bacteria or cell theory), and then goes on to pretty accurately describe the mechanisms of natural selection.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Lucretius in De Rerum Natura in 50 BCE seemed to have a few that were just a bit ahead of everyone else, owed to the Greek philosopher Epicurus.

Survival of the fittest (book 5):

"In the beginning, there were many freaks. Earth undertook Experiments - bizarrely put together, weird of look Hermaphrodites, partaking of both sexes, but neither; some Bereft of feet, or orphaned of their hands, and others dumb, Being devoid of mouth; and others yet, with no eyes, blind. Some had their limbs stuck to the body, tightly in a bind, And couldn't do anything, or move, and so could not evade Harm, or forage for bare necessities. And the Earth made Other kinds of monsters too, but in vain, since with each, Nature frowned upon their growth; they were not able to reach The flowering of adulthood, nor find food on which to feed, Nor be joined in the act of Venus.

For all creatures need Many different things, we realize, to multiply And to forge out the links of generations: a supply Of food, first, and a means for the engendering seed to flow Throughout the body and out of the lax limbs; and also so The female and the male can mate, a means they can employ In order to impart and to receive their mutual joy.

Then, many kinds of creatures must have vanished with no trace Because they could not reproduce or hammer out their race. For any beast you look upon that drinks life-giving air, Has either wits, or bravery, or fleetness of foot to spare, Ensuring its survival from its genesis to now."

Trait inheritance from both parents that could skip generations (book 4):

"Sometimes children take after their grandparents instead, Or great-grandparents, bringing back the features of the dead. This is since parents carry elemental seeds inside – Many and various, mingled many ways – their bodies hide Seeds that are handed, parent to child, all down the family tree. Venus draws features from these out of her shifting lottery – Bringing back an ancestor’s look or voice or hair. Indeed These characteristics are just as much the result of certain seed As are our faces, limbs and bodies. Females can arise From the paternal seed, just as the male offspring, likewise, Can be created from the mother’s flesh. For to comprise A child requires a doubled seed – from father and from mother. And if the child resembles one more closely than the other, That parent gave the greater share – which you can plainly see Whichever gender – male or female – that the child may be."

Objects of different weights will fall at the same rate in a vacuum (book 2):

“Whatever falls through water or thin air, the rate Of speed at which it falls must be related to its weight, Because the substance of water and the nature of thin air Do not resist all objects equally, but give way faster To heavier objects, overcome, while on the other hand Empty void cannot at any part or time withstand Any object, but it must continually heed Its nature and give way, so all things fall at equal speed, Even though of differing weights, through the still void.”

Often I see people dismiss the things the Epicureans got right with an appeal to their lack of the scientific method, which has always seemed a bit backwards to me. In hindsight, they nailed so many huge topics that didn't end up emerging again for millennia that it was surely not mere chance, and the fact that they successfully hit so many nails on the head without the hammer we use today indicates (at least to me) that there's value to looking closer at their methodology.

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[-] BartyDeCanter 56 points 3 months ago

Then Diogenes comes rolling through in an RV.

[-] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago

"Behold, a house!"

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[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 48 points 3 months ago

PLATO: An automobile is craft with an internal combustion engine, crankshaft, and wheels.

DIOGENES wheels in a HONDA GX630 PRESSURE WASHER

DIOGENES: Behold! An automobile!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Wouldn't Plato say that it is merely what we perceive to be a craft with an internal combustion engine, crankshaft, and wheels?

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[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago

SOCRATES: What's a what, now?

[-] dariusj18@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

My computer has windows and can fly

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

Mine has Windows and it's a piece of shit.

[-] MrLLM@ani.social 8 points 3 months ago

I’d like to recommend you to get some GNU Linux™️ with antiviral formula, it wipes windows in seconds!

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Well, technically, downwards still counts as flight

[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

[-] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

I (pretend to) use Arch, by the way

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

You mean the toasters can fly.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

In Soviet Russia houses move with YOU.

[-] philipsdirk@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

These projects are awesome! IIRC they swiveled an entire building whilst still in use somewhere in America (Maybe NYC?). Without interrupting plumbing and electricity.

Edit: Found it, it was in Indiana: Indiana Bell building

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago
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[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

I did some research and it was because it was a telecom building that could not have any downtime and they wanted a new bigger building to be built that happened to overlap the original building's footprint.

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[-] netvor@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

You don't know that houses can't move. Absence of a proof does not imply impossibility.

Sounds ridiculous (esp. for windows / houses) but I think it actually shows where Occam's Razor comes to the rescue: When deciding what to believe, you should consider how many assumptions either model of the world would have to include in order to explain your observations.

Turns you don't need to look for indisputable mathematically rigorous proofs, you just need to find the best model.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

All houses can move, if enough wind is blowing

Therefore it is wind that makes cars go.

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[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Boats often have windows.

Not always...

... But, if a boat does have windows, its more likely one can actually live in it as compared to a boat without windows.

But, some boats with windows cannot really move under their own power, though many can.

But also many boats without windows can also move.

But not all of them.

lol

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[-] Baaahb@feddit.nl 8 points 3 months ago

The.motive force of an object cannot be attributed to the windows

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Houses have windows and can't move

Trailer parks are literally full of houses that can move.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 10 points 3 months ago

... that could move, once upon a time.

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[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Greek algebra, a truth is only true if all other examples of the truth are proven true. Or one can be a part of the whole but the whole isn't exactly the same as one.

[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I've heard from this community that houses can run on Linux, though.

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

House windows and car windows differ a lot both in shape and in materials used. Should they even be called the same just because they can be looked out of? There might still be a chance that the obviously very specialized car windows do make the car go.

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