The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Chris Bacon wrote:
bigegg wrote:
What a strange thing for a "philosopher" to say - if you
put your cat in a sealed box, is it alive or dead?

That is a very simplistic question.

It's also a very simple one to answer., It isn't anything until you make
such a judgement call on the cat as to determnine, in human terms, which
of the sets of deadness and aliveness it falls into.

What I meant was that it is a very simplistic question compared
to the full version. The answer to the above is just that the
animal is in the same state as when you put it in.