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The Examined Life, Age 8 (nytimes.com)
32 points by robg on April 17, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


See also http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/children/ and a wonderful book by Gareth Matthews, "Dialogues with Children."


TIM (about six years), while busily engaged in licking a pot, asked, “Papa, how can we be sure that everything is not a dream?” (p. 1)

Am I Chuang-Tzu, dreaming I am a butterfly, or a butterfly, dreaming I am Chuang-Tzu?




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