Another Haircut for Lilo

Because I can't get enough of Lilo's before & afters

(and hopefully you can't either)

here is another one.

Before (taking her to the groomer)



After (taking her home after the groomers)



The question is, which hair style is more ridiculous?

(This is where "The Professor" AKA Stephen steps in)

Keep in mind that Lilo is essentially ridiculous, meaning that it is an attribute that if taken away, Lilo would cease being Lilo. If I took the redness from a rubber ball, a ball would still exist because redness is not an essential attribute to the ball or any ball. Redness to a ball (and if taken farther, color on anything) is what philosophers call an "accidental" attribute. As for essential attributes, a bachelor has two essential attributes: one must be both unmarried and a male. An Asian unmarried male is just as much a bachelor as a hispanic unmarried male, for the attributes of "asian" and "hispanic" are accidental or non-essential to bachelorship. So essential attributes are things required by definition of a certain object or substance, whereas accidental or non-essential attributes are not required by the definition of a certain object or substance.

But back to Lilo. Ridiculousness is an essential attribute to Lilo. Without this attribute Lilo is no longer Lilo. She is necessarily ridiculous. There exists no possible world where Lilo, if existing, will not be ridiculous. Just like there is no possible world where adding all the angles of any four-sided shape (quadrilaterals) does not equal 360 degrees or the angles of a triangle not add up to 180 degrees. We might as well make Lilo a Euclid axion.

The question then becomes, which hair style exemplifies the essential attribute of ridiculousness in Lilo?

I will let your philosophical minds meditate on that.

(Thanks for the lesson Professor!)

PS I also found our silly cat Giselle sleeping like this today.



PPS My parents are coming tomorrow! It's a good thing they like The Professor, ridiculous dogs and silly cats.