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Old 01-27-2013, 05:53 AM   #7
ZenGum
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Originally Posted by footfootfoot View Post
Water takes the SHAPE of the given container, not water BECOMES part of the given container.

http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php...%25#post203110
That's the in-a-bottle relationship. The metaphysical constituent relationship is different. The water does become part of the celery.


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Originally Posted by toranokaze View Post
In the same way cars have doors, but a car isn't a door or house is made of wood, wood are made from trees but trees are not houses.
Cars "have" doors. Celery "partly is" water. These relations are different.

You can have a bottle without water, a car without doors, a house without wood, but you cannot have celery completely without water.
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