What you didn't know is that the universe is mostly ducks. Dark matter? More like duck matter!
What about parts of a hot dog?
What if I ate a hot dog?
You wouldn't claim a hot dog is not a hot dog anymore after I took a bite, right?
If parts of a hot dog are a hot dog, when do they become non-hotdog in my intestines?
If a hot dog is no longer a hot dog after you take a bite, what is it? It's still a sandwich consisting of a sausage in a bun; you're just masticating now.
Is a picture of a duck a duck?
Is the life of a duck a duck?
Is your perception of a duck a duck?
There's a linear algebra joke that can complement this one and goes like this:
Everything in the universe is either a duck or not a duck, but almost everything that is not a duck, if examined very closely or in really short time intervals, it behaves as a duck and you can apply duck methods to it.
What about a platypus? It could be considered part/half-duck. Or even duck-like!
Just because we can't know if something is a duck or not, doesn't mean there are other possibilities.
Very strong Law of the Excluded Mallard vibes here.
Aren't you forgetting Goduck's Incompleteness Theorem?
The fun thing about the existence of infinity is that there is an infinite number of possible points on the line between “duck” and “not duck”
depends how you define duck; you can very much make it a binary. ultimately every term is just a construct
You can make the term a binary, but binary doesn’t really exist in the real world. Your DNA is part duck just by nature of being a vertebrate.
I believe that every arbitrarily descriptive line can be crossed by dissecting the nature of the things on either side of the line.