Opposites
A friend explains additive and multiplicative inverses, then applies the same logic to 'dog.'
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A: "What's the opposite of 5?"
B: "Either −5 or 1/5. Depends what kind of opposite you mean."
A: "I see. And what's the opposite of 'dog'?"
B: "Well... I guess it's either a cat or a hairless abstraction."