Is there such a thing as half of a hole in the ground?

Question

Is there such a thing as half of a hole in the ground?

Answer 1

a hole is a hole... not half...

Answer 2

No. A Hole is a cavity, not defined by size or shape.

Answer 3

I love questions from philosophy like this one.  There are a lot of questions like this that don't have a clear meaning, such as, "Can you clap with one hand?", or "How much does green weigh?"   The fun is finding a way to make any sense out of them at all, so here's my offer for this one:  Yes, there is such a thing as half of a hole in the ground, since, for example, I could have, say, a cubic yard hole in the ground that is in the process of being filled up.  We have at the moment half a cubic yard of dirt in midair inside of the hole on its way to the bottom of the hole, so do we say it's a whole hole, or do we say it is not a whole because there's dirt falling into it, or can we quantitively say that it's a half a hole because it's in a state midway between a whole hole and no hole at all?   This is not very different from the kind of logic that's now used to measure fractal dimensions, see Wiki.

Answer 4

No.

Answer 5

No, there isn't.

Answer 6

If you dig a hole then fill it halfway up, then it is half of the hole you had. So it is no longer the whole hole.