{"id":1803,"date":"2016-09-26T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T05:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nwcenter\/wordpress\/?post_type=questionslibrary&#038;p=1803"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:45:47","slug":"alice-in-wonderland-a-mad-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"questionslibrary","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/questionslibrary\/alice-in-wonderland-a-mad-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice in Wonderland &#8211; \u201cA Mad Tea Party\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Alice notices that the Dormouse is being used as a cushion by the March Hare and the Hatter. She thinks to herself, \u201cVery uncomfortable for the Dormouse, only, as it\u2019s asleep, I suppose it doesn\u2019t mind.\u201d Can you be uncomfortable when you are asleep? Can things bother you when you are asleep?<\/li>\n<li>Does what happens to you matter if you can\u2019t feel it?<\/li>\n<li>Does what happens to you matter if you don\u2019t know about it?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a difference between meaning what you say and saying what you mean? Why or why not?<\/li>\n<li>What can you do with time? (Think of all the terms we use: waste it, spend it, kill it, etc.). Are there better or worse things to do with it?<\/li>\n<li>Complete this sentence: \u201cMy favorite way to spend time is to \u2026, and the reason why is \u2026.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Can you take \u201cmore tea\u201d if you\u2019ve had none? Isn\u2019t it easy to take \u201cmore\u201d than nothing?<\/li>\n<li>Alice starts to say, I don\u2019t think . . .\u201d and the Hatter interrupts her, \u201cThen you shouldn\u2019t talk.\u201d Can you talk without thinking? Can you notice something without thinking about it? Can you stop thinking?<\/li>\n<li>Is the Hatter being rude? What is rudeness?<\/li>\n<li>Finish the Dormouse\u2019s story about Elsie, Lacie and Tillie.<\/li>\n<li>At some point the Hatter says something and Alice thinks to herself that the remark had \u201cnot sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.\u201d Can a sentence have \u201cno sort of meaning\u201d at all in it? Make up a nonsense sentence. We\u2019ll write them all down and see if we can come up with some context in which the sentence is not nonsense.<\/li>\n<li>What was the strangest thing that ever happened to you? What made it strange? Is there anything in the world that isn\u2019t strange?<\/li>\n<li>Imagine the most \u201ccurious party\u201d you can. Who would you invite? What would you do? What would make it curious?<\/li>\n<li>Is saying what you mean the same as meaning what you say? If so, why? 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