RE: How many holes does a straw have?
August 19, 2018 at 8:29 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2018 at 8:36 am by Mystic.)
It's one from the perspective of literally it's a continuous hole. But suppose we wish to distinguish a cylinder with an opening on top but closing on the bottom. Because humans use language to distinguish ideas from others, it would not be wrong to say it has two holes, one on top and one on bottom, but literally there is one hole in both cases, but language is not meant to be literal but communicate. From that perspective, I would go with two holes.
From another perspective it's just a hollow cylinder with two openings one on top and one on bottom, and has no holes, depending on the usage of holes. For example, if your straw was cut by a needle and had a hole in that sense, it would have that as hole while it's structure is not considered a hole.
All answers are correct from my opinion, from various angles. The trivial one is one, which is a just an over-literal way to talk and means almost nothing.
From another perspective it's just a hollow cylinder with two openings one on top and one on bottom, and has no holes, depending on the usage of holes. For example, if your straw was cut by a needle and had a hole in that sense, it would have that as hole while it's structure is not considered a hole.
All answers are correct from my opinion, from various angles. The trivial one is one, which is a just an over-literal way to talk and means almost nothing.
