Squirrel
Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
Suppose a squirrel is behind the trunk of a tree, which it keeps between itself and a hunter who is circling the tree. In this case does the hunter actually walk around the squirrel?
Answer
Yes he does! To go around is to encircle entirely about. Therefore, this would ignore any rotary motion of the object being circled, in this case, the squirrel. The hunter does go around the squirrel since the hunter goes around the tree which the squirrel has not left.
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mad-ade   
Mar 16, 2002
| it is all relevant to the distance the hunter or the squirrel is away from the tree. if the squirrle is say 2 foot from the tree and the hunter only 1 foot away , then the squirrel circles the hunter. |
dark-prince
Apr 16, 2002
| mad-ade should read the question the Squirell keeps the tree BETWEEN himself and the hunter |
mad-ade
Apr 27, 2002
| yes i did read the question. but if the squirrel is 2 foot away from the tree and the hunter 1 foot away from the tree the tree is still between them. i think my earlier comment doesnt mention anything about the hunter or squirrel not keeping the tree between them. |
lizard450
May 27, 2002
| no.. because for the hunter to circle the squirrl then the tree would no longer be between them.. |
lizard450
May 27, 2002
| I see how you think it works but he is not actually circling the squirrl itself |
something 
Aug 04, 2002
| nor does he in blaze's answer. |
Crazycriely
Oct 28, 2006
| i dont like this teaser...it seems that if the squirrel were keeping the tree between itself and the hunter the hunter would never meet the squirrel |
chickwithbrains 
Aug 14, 2007
| yah -- I don't get the answer to this one at all... I agree -- if the tree is kept between them, then there is no way that the hunter could circle the squirrel.   |
MarcM1098 
Jun 07, 2009
| This would work if the squirrel was inside the tree, but not as written.
You could equally say the hunter keeps the tree between the squirrel and himself, and that the squirrel circles the hunter.
In reality, their paths follow the exact same circle, neither is outside or inside the other. |
minorwork
Oct 02, 2010
| Does the hunter go round the squirrel?
Yes and no are perfectly correct answers. Depends on what you mean by "go round." If you mean the hunter North of the tree and squirrel moves to the west, then south, then east, then back north of the squirrel, well be all means you have to say the hunter went round the squirrel.
BUT. If you mean the hunter, standing in front of the squirrel must move to the squirrels left, then behind, then to the right, and back to the front of the squirrel, then NO the hunter has NOT gone round the squirrel. This is equally the situation in how a photon can be shown to be a particle or a wave depending on which meaning description is being tested for. |
minorwork
Oct 02, 2010
| The given answer does not express the true meaning of the problem which is available at the Stanford Philosophy site by William James pragmatic philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism/
Section 1, 6th paragraph |
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