Three Legs Off
At which moment did it stop being a chair?
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Three Legs Off
Your kitchen chair loses a leg. You keep it. It loses two more and you lean it in the corner and pile books on the seat. Then you take the seat off and use the plank as a shelf. Someone visiting asks what the plank is.
At which moment did it stop being a chair?
Then ask
- If you can still sit on something, is it a chair whatever it was built as?
- What if you rebuilt it perfectly but never sat on it again?
- Is a chair in a museum, roped off, still a chair?
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