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by marginalia_nu 811 days ago
Having four legs doesn't follow from something being an animal just because there are examples of animals with four legs. A chicken is also an animal.

Having four legs is accidental to being an animal, just as there being an infinite number of elements between any two elements in a set is accidental to its cardinality being infinite.

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Chickens have wings at the end of their arms.