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by andybak 2748 days ago
"Intelligence is knowing tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put them in your fruit salad"
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Unless you are talking botany, calling a tomato a fruit is falling for the fallacy of equivocation and too many people do this and have the pretension that they are being smart. The word "fruit" has multiple definitions, a tomato is a fruit by definition 1, but not a fruit by definition 2.

What most people understand by the word fruit is definition 2.

What's definition 2?
You will be interested to learn about the existence of tomato jam.