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apollianaI remember the day I was told this riddle, in third grade.
Q.: How far can you walk into a forest?
A.: Halfway.
A conceptual question posing as an empirical one.
Trees, forest. Forest, trees.
The forest is nothing over and beyond the trees. That's what "forest" means. But someone claiming to "see the forest" still implies more than "I see some trees." ("A forest is a bunch of trees" is not analytic.) And if you "can't see the forest for the trees" what you need is a change in aspect. (Superimposed concepts.)
Q.: How far can you walk into a forest?
A.: Halfway.
A conceptual question posing as an empirical one.
Trees, forest. Forest, trees.
The forest is nothing over and beyond the trees. That's what "forest" means. But someone claiming to "see the forest" still implies more than "I see some trees." ("A forest is a bunch of trees" is not analytic.) And if you "can't see the forest for the trees" what you need is a change in aspect. (Superimposed concepts.)
