What is the opposite of a knife?

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Bolstermanic said:
Or, what is the best complement for a knife? (complEment not complIment.) A knife is a tool for cutting, separating things. What tool is the yang to a knife's yin? Assuming that cutting and joining are how humans primarily modify their environments, what is the most essential joining tool/element that's equivalent to the most essential cutting tool (which I assume is a knife)?

Second question: Do you carry it/them? You carry a separator, do you also carry a joiner? (joiner not jointer.)
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Assuming you are going philosophical instead of practical on this, the answer would be art or more specifically music which is a form of art and yes it is carried.
 
jiggyfly16 said:
The answer would be nothing. To cut is an action that changes the state of the object being cut. The opposite would be to not cut.......so nothing.
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Well by this thinking wouldn't the opposite be tearing or pulling apart instead of cutting?
 
Eliteone2383 said:
Well by this thinking wouldn't the opposite be tearing or pulling apart instead of cutting?
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Well in that instance, you're still putting energy into the object by changing its original state. The opposite would be to not change its original state by not putting enegy into it.
 
jiggyfly16 said:
Well in that instance, you're still putting energy into the object by changing its original state. The opposite would be to not change its original state by not putting enegy into it.
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Not sure.if this works, the opposite of assembling something is disassembling that something. Cutting would be no different.

Both require an input of energy and both change its "state".
 
Houlahound said:
Not sure.if this works, the opposite of assembling something is disassembling that something. Cutting would be no different.

Both require an input of energy and both change its "state".
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It would still kind of work because you can't "uncut" something once it has been cut. assemby and dissassembly implies that you can go back to a previous state. Unless time machine.
 
jiggyfly16 said:
It would still kind of work because you can't "uncut" something once it has been cut. assemby and dissassembly implies that you can go back to a previous state. Unless time machine.
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If something needs to be disassembled but one chooses to do the opposite of cutting then naturally that would be pulling or tearing. No?
 
jiggyfly16 said:
It would still kind of work because you can't "uncut" something once it has been cut. assemby and dissassembly implies that you can go back to a previous state. Unless time machine.
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Doing nothing can't be the opposite of cutting because it is not possible to do nothing. There is no such state as nothing that there is any evidence for.
 
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Eliteone2383 said:
If something needs to be disassembled but one chooses to do the opposite of cutting then naturally that would be pulling or tearing. No?
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If the implication is that you must change its state, and its a matter in how you change its state then you would correct.

Houlahound said:
Doing nothing can't be the opposite of cutting because it is not possible to do nothing. There is no such state as nothing that there is any evidence for.
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If an object is not cut and left alone, then you would be doing nothing to that object.

.......My head hurts Y'all
 
jiggyfly16 said:
If the implication is that you must change its state, and its a matter in how you change its state then you would correct.



If an object is not cut and left alone, then you would be doing nothing to that object.

.......My head hurts Y'all
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If I am dancing on my elbows naked in the shower or robbing a bank I am doing nothing to a piece of swiss cheese on top of mount Everest - it does not follow that my actions are the opposite of cutting otherwise every action in the universe that is not cutting an object is the opposite of cutting.

You logic is garbage.
 
Houlahound said:
If I am dancing on my elbows naked in the shower or robbing a bank I am doing nothing to a piece of swiss cheese on top of mount Everest - it does not follow that my actions are the opposite of cutting otherwise every action in the universe that is not cutting an object is the opposite of cutting.

You logic is garbage.
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Ok.
 
Bolstermanic said:
Or, what is the best complement for a knife? (complEment not complIment.) A knife is a tool for cutting, separating things. What tool is the yang to a knife's yin? Assuming that cutting and joining are how humans primarily modify their environments, what is the most essential joining tool/element that's equivalent to the most essential cutting tool (which I assume is a knife)?

Second question: Do you carry it/them? You carry a separator, do you also carry a joiner? (joiner not jointer.)
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Are you really that bored?
 
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