bigegg wrote:
Chris Bacon wrote:
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.

Is it?
In a *sealed* box?

Of course it is, Humpty Dumpty. "The animal is in the same state as
when you put it in".