Is a flower still a flower if it doesn't have any petals?
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Re: Is a flower still a flower if it doesn't have any petals?A flower's petals is not the flower itself, it's just part of the flower so yes, it's still a flower..does that make sense?(Original post by EmilyAl)
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Re: Is a flower still a flower if it doesn't have any petals?Yes. Flowering plants are also known as angiosperms (or magnoliophyta) and represent a division of the plant kingdom. It is a flowering plant throughout the whole process of being a seed, to a stem with no petals, to a bud to a plant with petals. Unless you really are talking philosophically and the idea of Theseus' ship, where you can replace the ship plank by plank with someone else's ship and wonder at what point it stops being Theseus' ship. Another question is if you start with a pile of rice and take away one grain at a time, at what point does it stop being a pile? It's all to do with the way that we as humans categorise reality. Reality is chaos, and as humans we try to make sense of it by imposing a sense of order, but it breaks back down into chaos upon close inspection.
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Re: Is a flower still a flower if it doesn't have any petals?Well said.(Original post by miser)
Yes. Flowering plants are also known as angiosperms (or magnoliophyta) and represent a division of the plant kingdom. It is a flowering plant throughout the whole process of being a seed, to a stem with no petals, to a bud to a plant with petals. Unless you really are talking philosophically and the idea of Theseus' ship, where you can replace the ship plank by plank with someone else's ship and wonder at what point it stops being Theseus' ship. Another question is if you start with a pile of rice and take away one grain at a time, at what point does it stop being a pile? It's all to do with the way that we as humans categorise reality. Reality is chaos, and as humans we try to make sense of it by imposing a sense of order, but it breaks back down into chaos upon close inspection.
