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You're carving out a definition to fit intuitive inferences gleaned by observing instances of "sandwich" and "not-sanwich" labeled by influential people in your life who had no objective reasons for constructing and perpetuating those categories in the first place.

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I agree it would have been a lot easier if we precisely defined the sandwich before foods were invented so we'd know which category to place them in ahead of time, but alas barring the invention of time travel we have to deal with our forefathers' mistakes.

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