2007-09-10 07:34:20 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Kitkan is right, Abe Lincoln did use to ask this question and many people did answer 5, even though the answer is 4. Just because you call he tail a leg, doesn't make it one.
Just like if you call a fish or a chicken a plant it doesn't become one. And that is the reason it is in V&V.
2007-09-10 07:48:33 · update #1
If someone calls a tail a leg, we all should agree that the person is stupid and ignore everything else that they have to say.
Just like the persistent "pollo/fishitarians"
2007-09-10 07:56:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Four. You can call the tail anything you like, but it's still a tail and not a leg.
2007-09-10 09:58:29 · answer #2 · answered by VeggieTart -- Let's Go Caps! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4. A tail is still a tail even if it's called a leg.
I've never heard it called a leg before, though,
2007-09-10 07:39:41 · answer #3 · answered by abizzell4hire 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One, since you have redefined a leg as something other than those four appendages formerly known as legs.
ADDENDUM: Lincoln apparently didn't think the question through enough. A word is a symbol, and the symbol is not the thing. Symbols can be redefined.
2007-09-10 07:43:25 · answer #4 · answered by John's Secret Identity™ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you mean... names are arbitrary in reality... it only means anything if both people agree on what a leg is... other wise it could just as well be a table. so as I know it and recognize it, it would have four legs. But that's only if you and I mean the same thing with the word "leg"
2007-09-10 10:23:55 · answer #5 · answered by SST 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can call it a leg, but that doesn't make it one. The dog has 4 legs.
2007-09-10 07:38:58 · answer #6 · answered by notyou311 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
4, just cause you call a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Why is this question in Vegetarian and Vegan?
2007-09-10 07:38:48 · answer #7 · answered by misty_dawn1100 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Four. I think I've read that Abraham Lincoln once asked the same question.
2007-09-10 07:44:13 · answer #8 · answered by Catkin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A dog has four legs, period. Sometimes they don't even have a tail. Is that what being a vegetarian does to the thought process?
I'm glad I'm a meat eater.
2007-09-10 07:42:22 · answer #9 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Four-doesn't what you call the tail, it's still a tail.
2007-09-10 07:44:00 · answer #10 · answered by kayakker1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋