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incar

incar noun: a car completely inside of a garage, or the portion of a car that is inside a garage.

Noun

incar (plural incars)

  1. (metaphysics) 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...2006, John Hawthorne, Metaphysical Essays, →ISBN, page vii
    • For example, incars are things ordinary folks have never dreamed of.2015, Thomas Satting, The Double Lives of Objects: An Essay in the Metaphysics of the Ordinary World, →ISBN, page 25

Examples of incar in a sentence

  • 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.2006, John Hawthorne, Metaphysical Essays, →ISBN, page vii:
  • It is natural to claim that there are no such things as incars and outcars.2017, André Gallois, The Metaphysics of Identity, →ISBN, page 177:
  • These reflections help us with some other purportedly absurd objects that Eklund mentions in order to embarrass the neo-Fregean, such as incars and xhearts/xlivers.2020, Richard Gaskin, Language and World: A Defence of Linguistic Idealism, →ISBN:

Antonyms of incar

Forms of incar

pluralincars

Origin of incar

Coined by American philosopher Eli Hirsch in 1982 in The Concept of Identity, formed by in- + car.

Questions about incar

What does incar mean?
Incar means a car completely inside of a garage, or the portion of a car that is inside a garage.
How do you use incar in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is incar?
Incar is a noun.
What is the plural of incar?
The plural of incar is incars.

Words near incar in the dictionary

  1. incapsulated
  2. incapsulates
  3. incapsulating
  4. incapsulation
  5. incapsulations
  6. incar
  7. incarcerable
  8. incarcerate
  9. incarcerated
  10. incarcerates
  11. incarcerating

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