BatElite
@BatElite

From the fact that we have a collective understanding of what a pizza place is, it must follow that we understand most of the world as being pizzaless places.


fwankie
@fwankie

counterpoint: you can go almost anywhere you want if people think you're delivering a pizza


conifer-wow
@conifer-wow

My issue with the concept of the "pizzaless place" is that it implies that the existence of pizza within a place is what defines it as a pizza place. However, this is not how the pizza place is colloquially defined. It is instead understood to be a place wherein pizza is created; it is a source of pizza.

I would instead say that most places in the world are "unpizza places". If the pizza place is the source of pizza, the unpizza place is the terminus of pizza, the place where pizza is consumed. This reframing allows for the existence of pizza in places which are not pizza places, a state for which the pizzaless place is unable to account.

It should also be mentioned that although pizza may be consumed within the pizza place, the ability to remove pizza from the pizza place makes it a net creator of pizza, and therefore not an unpizza place.



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