Today at the writing centre we had several students come in who were taking their first ethics class. I was trying to explain that the task of the assignment was to identify some property (or set of properties) or principle that make the described case morally troublesome.
I did not want to give away what those features might be because the identification was precisely the work involved with completing the assignment, so I tried to be general in my discussion of properties.
Because I remembered and was trying to avoid a similar situation in which a prof had discussed how we perceive some property, P, and ended up discussing P-ness for the entire lecture, I decided to use a different variable. To avoid awkward discussions of P-ness with the student, I decided to pick the first letter other than P that came to mind. That was “A.” Bad choice.
To avoid talking about P-ness I instead talked about A-ness.
Sometimes philosophy is funny. It is Q-ness from now on.
I approve of this philosophy.
(I never did outgrow that phase.)
Ha, ha, ha that made me giggle.
Had you used Venn diagrams you may well have been able to illustrate Q-nss as an area wherein P-ness enters A-ness.