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.
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.
ReplyDeleteSo is potatoness a graded property?
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't this a platonic question?
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