Twitter, what are some good classic questions of philosophy I can pepper my three year old daughter with? I just blew her mind with Zeno’s paradox and I don’t even think she understood what was happening
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My understanding is that three year olds typically struggle with straight up syllogisms. e.g. “My friend Annie has 10 cats, all black! One is named Snow. What color do you think snow is?” is supposed to be mysterious.
The answer is that Snow is black but snow is white. Capitalisation matters, but that can’t be expressed in speech. 🤓
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I tried it a few ways asking about three different cats, but she said “that one’s black too” for each one (including snow)
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