If a hot dog is no longer a hot dog after you take a bite, what is it? It's still a sandwich consisting of a sausage in a bun; you're just masticating now.
There's a linear algebra joke that can complement this one and goes like this:
Everything in the universe is either a duck or not a duck, but almost everything that is not a duck, if examined very closely or in really short time intervals, it behaves as a duck and you can apply duck methods to it.
What about a fertilized but unhatched duck egg? That's kinda both a duck and not a duck.
I think you'd consider a roast duck a duck, but what about a duck drumstick? Would you say that's not a duck? If so, how much of the roast duck needs to be connected for it to be a duck?
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This guy has never heard of quantum ducks
Schrödinger's Duck
Came here to write this... Man you're good.
What you didn't know is that the universe is mostly ducks. Dark matter? More like duck matter!
Duck Tales? More like Everything Tales!
What about half a duck?
How crispy we talking?
Is a single cell within a duck a duck or is it itself not a duck?
Yes.
Inclusive or gets them every time.
Came here to make the same joke. Am not disappoint.
What about parts of a hot dog?
What if I ate a hot dog?
You wouldn't claim a hot dog is not a hot dog anymore after I took a bite, right?
If parts of a hot dog are a hot dog, when do they become non-hotdog in my intestines?
If a hot dog is no longer a hot dog after you take a bite, what is it? It's still a sandwich consisting of a sausage in a bun; you're just masticating now.
platypus
Is a picture of a duck a duck?
Is the life of a duck a duck?
Is your perception of a duck a duck?
Now this is science.
This is where the science begins
On the internet, no one can tell you're a duck.
What about some sorta duck-goose hybrid?
It depends on your definition of duck
There's a linear algebra joke that can complement this one and goes like this:
Everything in the universe is either a duck or not a duck, but almost everything that is not a duck, if examined very closely or in really short time intervals, it behaves as a duck and you can apply duck methods to it.
Fewer than 5% of adult cats have a driver's license.
What about a platypus? It could be considered part/half-duck. Or even duck-like!
Makes sense to me
The fun thing about the existence of infinity is that there is an infinite number of possible points on the line between “duck” and “not duck”
depends how you define duck; you can very much make it a binary. ultimately every term is just a construct
You can make the term a binary, but binary doesn’t really exist in the real world. Your DNA is part duck just by nature of being a vertebrate.
Binary absolutely exists "in the real world".
I believe that every arbitrarily descriptive line can be crossed by dissecting the nature of the things on either side of the line.
Very strong Law of the Excluded Mallard vibes here.
Aren't you forgetting Goduck's Incompleteness Theorem?
More like law of excluded middle amirite?
Schrödinger would like a word
Just because we can't know if something is a duck or not, doesn't mean there are other possibilities.
Mathematical constructivists hate this meme
Hey buddy, you ever here of a loon?
wrong. duck fetus
Platypus?
Heretic! How dare you!?
What about a fertilized but unhatched duck egg? That's kinda both a duck and not a duck.
I think you'd consider a roast duck a duck, but what about a duck drumstick? Would you say that's not a duck? If so, how much of the roast duck needs to be connected for it to be a duck?
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Since this is indeed a binary system, every part of "Duck" is also "Duck". So a duck salad is not duck, bit the meat in it is "duck".
everything is a bucket
There’s more
Wait. Could Quantum ducks in a superposition state exist? And how would those be a duck or not?
Source? I'll continue to believe in my quantum super-duck until proven otherwise!
Schrödingers duck
Infinity is only a concept, nothing is infinite.
Oh? Nothing is infinite? What about the universe? Sure it ends somewhere. But not for long.
Oh, also, my hatred for myself is pretty infinite.
Even hating yourself is finite when you have enough hatred
If a duck was about to hit his head on something, how would you warn him?
"Hey duck!" ?
They are called ducks because they duck.
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Well when you put it that way...
What about the cells the form the wall around the heart of the duck? Is that a duck?
They are duck
Not individual ducks but a collective duck
No they are not a duck, they are the cells of a duck.
Except muscovies. They are both duck and not duck.
No way, a space duck!
Quack!
You may see a duck, but Stanley sees a bucket.
Surely you mean a ducket?
Ducking A!
Oh, so that's what duck-typing means!
What about the duck-non-duck hybrids ?
no way
Ok Howard...