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

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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/91486

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Crown Publishers

en_US New York

Subject

en_US QL49.S517 1979

en_US Tangential

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole