Here's one for the thinkers among you

Here's one for the thinkers among you

from: Xal 14 May 2008

Bear with me for a moment : A balloon is inflatable. In fact you could say that being inflatable is a defining property of a balloon (not the only one, but defining anyway, in the sense that every balloon is inflatable, even though not every inflatable object is a balloon).....But : There is a certain point where the balloon is inflated so much that even an extra molecule of air would make it explode. Hence, you can't say anymore that the object at hand is inflatable. So, keeping that in mind, the question is whether the balloon inflated to it's maximum, after loosing it's (defining) inflatability property, ceases to be a balloon. And if so, what is it ? And what happens metaphysically there anyway.

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