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fake news... that’s not a tool... that’s a stick.

sheesh.

5 posted on 10/31/2019 11:50:24 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)

“fake news... that’s not a tool... that’s a stick.”

sheesh.

Yeah, it is only a tool, if the pig bought it at Ace or Home Depot.

17 posted on 10/31/2019 12:09:54 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (Thanks to jonascord)!)

A “tool” is any object that is not your (or the pig’s or the chimp’s, ect) body but which you (they) use, using some part of your (their) body to manipulate to perform a task.

In the pigs case, if they only ever dug in the ground with their snout and/or feet, you could say they did not use tools.

Since they do choose particular types of objects, which they hold in their mouth, to dig with, what they chose to dig with is classically a “tool” and what they are doing is using tools. It may be unsophisticated and lacking the human ability of building our own tools, it is still tool use in its most basic, rudimentary form.

All kinds of animals, insects included, use tools; unsophisticated, rudimentary, and natural objects but still tools.

26 posted on 10/31/2019 12:37:31 PM PDT by Wuli

I’ve got rocks rhat were tools. Why not a stick?

55 posted on 11/01/2019 1:43:12 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)

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