Showing posts with label potato chips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label potato chips. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Aristotelianism in the news

Recently, in considering whether Pringles count as potato crisps, for the purposes of British taxation, Lord Justice Robin Jacob

was even more dismissive of Procter & Gamble’s argument that to be taxable a product must contain enough potato to have the quality of “potatoness.” This “Aristotelian question” of whether a product has the “essence of potato,” he insisted, simply cannot be answered.
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