What is knife making?

“Does not a rose by any other name…, .”
 
Cushing H. said:
I might be wrong here ..... but I took Huntingsgr's comment to be humor. Funny thing about it is that most of what he wrote has good foundation in philosophy ..... but I think the very fact he wrote about it in such detail is his way of pointing out that ..... there really is not a lot of value or point in trying to analyze the question too deeply.....
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I meant it genuinely, and not to imply that there's no value in analyzing the question. I used his question as an avenue to loosely explain that there is no answer superordinate to any he could derive on his own. Still, it's worth having a laugh at.
 
Cushing H. said:
I might be wrong here ..... but I took Huntingsgr's comment to be humor. Funny thing about it is that most of what he wrote has good foundation in philosophy ..... but I think the very fact he wrote about it in such detail is his way of pointing out that ..... there really is not a lot of value or point in trying to analyze the question too deeply.....
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I should have been more specific. I wasn't really replying to anyone in particular. Just commenting on the discussion topic in general, as it's come up often here over the years.
 
What if. Stay with me here. What if, I'm making what everyone else would call a knife, but I consider it single blade scissors. Am I a scissor maker, or a knifemaker?
 
Blankblank said:
What if. Stay with me here. What if, I'm making what everyone else would call a knife, but I consider it single blade scissors. Am I a scissor maker, or a knifemaker?
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It's about the established definitions then. Provided you actually accept the established definitions, you're making whatever is most commensurate with the established definitions. A single blade cannot "scissor", by definition, so you're making a knife.
 
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