• It's called the 'Aristotle'. I like to think this is alluding to Aristotle's key definition of the concept of the accident (accidens, as 'what happens'). By contrasting this with a notion of substance (substat), he thus established the groundwork for our later, post-Enlightenment understanding of accidents as integral to everyday life, a sense that our essential being is composed of the contingent and fleeting, that accidents themselves are often the site of self-transformation or self-definition. This post-Aristotelian understanding of 'accident' remains with us to this day, and a meaning (rather brilliantly alluded to by UO) which would presumably have extra resonance were you to actually ride one of these.

    This thread did need the philosophical equivalent of a Unipak. ;P

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