Incar
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A car completely inside of a garage, or the portion of a car that is inside a garage.
"This is not to deny that we might initially be sceptical of the existence of objects like the outcars and incars entertained by Eli Hirsch, objects that grow and shrink as a car leaves its garage. But we don’t think it ridiculous that there are objects that grow and shrink as large rocks move underwater […] It seems clear that none but the most insular metaphysician should countenance islands while repudiating incars."
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More examples"This is not to deny that we might initially be sceptical of the existence of objects like the outcars and incars entertained by Eli Hirsch, objects that grow and shrink as a car leaves its garage. But we don’t think it ridiculous that there are objects that grow and shrink as large rocks move underwater […] It seems clear that none but the most insular metaphysician should countenance islands while repudiating incars."
Etymology
Coined by American philosopher Eli Hirsch in 1982 in The Concept of Identity, formed by in- + car.
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