I saw this painting online and just figured I'd share it here and see what you all thought of it. It's pretty cool in my opinion and it is true if you think about it. Translated into English it reads "This is not a pipe"
Nah, see you didn't say what it is, but you said what it looks like. Appearance is not reality, which is what this painting is meant to demonstrate.
tomato tomato, potato potato. The fact is, it actually does look like an image of a painting of a pipe. That just so happens to be what it is as well. Don't get caught up on semantics here because we're way past this.
Yeah I suppose but I think the semantics of it are important in this case. If we define two sets of things such that one set has everything it looks like and the other set has everything it is it would look like this: What it looks like: A pipe A painting of a pipe An image of a painting of a pipe What it is: An image of a painting of a pipe
I've got to apologize, I was being rather brass. I like the point here, but you also know what I meant when I sad it.
No problem, I was being somewhat uptight about language and I did know what you meant, though it wasn't what you said.