
Originally Posted by
BigGreen
I would think that since the doghouse is spoken of absolutely (ie, not "Jim's doghouse" or "that red doghouse") the answer must then be absolute, much like the answer to "how many times does the earth rotate on its axis within a 24 hour period?" or, to be as somewhat abstract in the absolute as the original question, "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop". While it may be a jump to claim that the answer is infiinitely absolute, it is specifically absolute. In other words, the licks, shingles, rotations, etc can be presumed to have been the same, absolutely in that specific incident, regardless of the independent conditions placed before it. Thus, rather you were flying on a teflon hamburger and the threads unraveled, driving in a straw station wagon and the windows caved in, or floating in a cement canoe and the wheels fell off, the only logical answer can be the same that it would have been whether or not you were in the canoe or the wheels fell off. Furthermore, as the question logically implies the absolute of a doghouse (and as such a rule of absolute), one can't fall back on any sort of chaos theory bullshit.