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[Wolfgang Teubert]

Dear Linas,
 
These are a few things (collected from Google) that I learned from talking with people and from reading texts. I may not agree with them. But they all tell me something about the meaning of 'table:'
 

A chair is not a table. It can be used as an table but it is not a table.

Picasso does not paint a table with the inscription that it is not a table; he paints a table which is not a table.

No, the answer runs, a bed is not a table since the objects to be placed on a bed are supposed to be people, while the objects put on the table are food or ...

Quite simply: the concept 'table' is not a table, in the sense that one cannot put anything on it, eat from it, etc.

"No, a desk is not a table."

it is not a table; and it's like a tree, but it's not a tree.

On those occasions when a table is not a table, is it drinking somewhere and dialing the phone numbers of ex-girlfriends who married lawyers and listening ...

admit that a treetable is not a table, but a very special decoration of a tree.

For the oak collector, the smallest occasional table is not a table at all, but a joint stool.

It is not a table, it is not a chair, it is just a modern interpretation of the traditional desk lamp.

The altar is NOT a "table."

A table without its legs is not a table but a simple piece of material on the ground. 

Point out a hundred reasons for saying that a hippopotamus is not a table: you'll end up agreeing that neither is a table a table -- it only seems to be a ...

Cheers

Wolfgang

 
 

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