(July 16, 2013 at 8:57 pm)Consilius Wrote: As for our machine analogy, inertia, the stuff that is keeping our unbreakable metal fragments together, is weak, and is not an unbreakable joinage. Hence, the machine can be broken.
Inertia is not any sort of "stuff". There is no "joinage". Anything that can be considered as "joinage" is also made of unbreakable material. And yet, the machine can be broken.
(July 16, 2013 at 8:57 pm)Consilius Wrote: A whole of something is the total of all its parts.
That would be the fallacy of composition.
(July 16, 2013 at 8:57 pm)Consilius Wrote: If all its parts are blue, the whole will be blue.
Wrong.
Drops of water are colorless.
A body of water (lake/pool/ocean) is entirely made of drops of water.
Therefore, all bodies of water are colorless - yeah, not so much.
Atoms are invisible to the naked eye.
Everything is wholly made of atoms.
Therefore, everything should be invisible to the naked eye - dammit, missed again.
(July 16, 2013 at 8:57 pm)Consilius Wrote: If all its parts are strong except one, the whole is only as strong as its weakest link.
It can, however, be weaker than the weakest link.
