Item
Animal Fact/Animal Fable
- Title
- en_US Animal Fact/Animal Fable
- Description
- en_US First printing
- en_US Seymour Simon
- Creator
- en_US Simon, Seymour See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US De Groat, Diane
- Date
- 2016-08-26T13:39:06Z
- en_US 2015-05
- en_US 1979
- Date Available
- 2016-08-26T13:39:06Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1979
- Abstract
- en_US "I presumed that I already had this paperback book in the collection. I do not, and there is a reason for not including it. It does not deal with fables at all. But it presents a fine instance of the popular use of "fable." The introduction explains the book's use of "fact" and "fable" by assessing the belief that bats are blind. "If bats are really blind, that belief is true; it is a fact. But suppose the bat flies in that odd way for another reason, and is not really blind. Then the belief is a fable; it is not true." The cases which the book raises are fascinating. Do bees sting only once? Are owls wise? Do wolves live alone? Do crickets tell the temperature with their chirps?"
- Identifier
- en_US 10888 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Crown Publishers
- en_US New York
- Subject
- en_US QL49.S517 1979 See all items with this value
- en_US Tangential See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books