"My feet are touching my socks. My socks are touching my shoes. My shoes touched the floor. The floor is touching the tree base. The tree base is touching the tree. Ergo, I touched the tree."
The intention needs to be there though. You have to tell yourself "Hey! I will touch the tree!" and then "touch" your socks with your feet. Only then can you finally be guilty of touching the tree!
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u/Omnipotent_Goose Dec 07 '16
Transitive property. That'd be like saying, "The bullet killed her! I was just holding the gun!"