' Wrote:lol you guys are gonna go onto some weird philsophical debate now.
If the apple holds all traits of a yacht how can one define yacht and apple seperately? for that matter how do you know that either of them float? You see them floating and all of your senses tell you that the yacht and apple are two seperate objects floating but suppose these thougt processes are just the result of a mad scientist poking and prodding your brain which he keeps in a jar.
An apple can only be a yacht if it inherits ALL of its properties from yacht.
A yacht is a subclass of boat (or ship if it's big enough), so the apple would have to have ALL the properties of boat.
Let's assume that that the yacht Fr0oTy mentioned is a full-size yacht, capable of transporting human objects (i.e. Not a toy). Even it if was a toy, the resulting properties would still be the same - only with different values.
Are there a certain properties of yacht that make it unique from other instances of [/i]boat[/i]?
Size? Shape? Propulsion method? Number of toilet paper rolls?
If you could make the properties and property values of apple match the properties and property values of yacht, then yes...an apple couple be a used as a yacht.
If you can make apple big enough to transport a human - assuming it still carries the "floating" property - then apple couple be a subclass of boat
However, a yacht that does not float would still be a yacht with the floating property set to false.
An apple with the floating property set to false would merely be a drowned apple that was formerly used as a yacht.
SO...no, an apple is not a yacht
But, we're talking about sentences here....
Is a question a sentence? I still say yes.
Is a statement a sentence? Yes.
Is a question a statement? No.