4. The Mirror Puzzle (This is a chapter I wrote for a children's philosophy book called The Outer Limits (now part of The Complete Philosophy Files). This chapter was thought too abstract by the editors, and was not included). Sometimes it is the things that are most familiar to us that turn out to be the most deeply puzzling. Take mirrors, for example. How many times do you see yourself reflected in a mirror each day? 1.ILLUSTRATE: BOY LOOKING INTO A MIRROR At least ten or twenty times, I should think. Most of us never stop to think about what we see. But, as you are about to discover, mirrors are very strange and puzzling things. An adventure in the mirror Aisha and Kobir are visiting Kobir’s auntie. Auntie Anaximander lives in an enormous, fusty old house deep in the moors. 2. THE BIG SPOOKY HOUSE IN THE MOORS. LIGHTENING. It’s a wild and stormy night and the phone and power lines are down. Auntie Anaximander has gone off in her car to
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