Recently, in considering whether Pringles count as potato crisps, for the purposes of British taxation, Lord Justice Robin Jacob
was even more dismissive of Procter & Gamble’s argument that to be taxable a product must contain enough potato to have the quality of “potatoness.” This “Aristotelian question” of whether a product has the “essence of potato,” he insisted, simply cannot be answered.See the whole article.
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The irony here is that, in terms of Aristotle, this seems rather to be an issue of division gone wrong than any issue of essence/species.
So is potatoness a graded property?
Why isn't this a platonic question?
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