Problem 2
Right for all the wrong reasons. Farmer Field wants to make sure that his favourite cow, Daisy, is safe and sound. It’s not just enough for the dairyman to say that she’s in the field, he wants to be certain. So he goes to the field and sees a black and white shape behind some tree in the distance. All is well with the world, or so it seems. The dairyman also goes to check and finds Daisy sitting in a hollow out of view of the gate and a large piece of paper caught in a tree. Thus Daisy really was in the field, but was Farmer Field right to say that he knew she was? I don’t think there’s probably a satisfactory answer to this question. Even although Daisy was in the field, Farmer Field was wrong to say that he knew she was there because he never confirmed his observation. It looked like a cow; therefore it was a cow. On the other hand, he was right at the time even although what he thought was Daisy was a large piece of black and white paper because he believed he was correct. His situ...