{"id":1892,"date":"2016-09-26T17:07:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nwcenter\/wordpress\/?post_type=questionslibrary&#038;p=1892"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:33:48","slug":"knuffle-bunny","status":"publish","type":"questionslibrary","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/questionslibrary\/knuffle-bunny\/","title":{"rendered":"Knuffle Bunny"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What do you think Trixie meant by \u201cAggle flaggle klabble\u201d? What about \u201cBlaggle plabble\u201d? \u201cWumpy flappy\u201d? \u201cSnurp\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>Why couldn\u2019t Trixie&#8217;s Dad couldn&#8217;t understand what Trixie meant when she spoke?<\/li>\n<li>How do we know we understand each other?<\/li>\n<li>Do we need words in order to communicate?<\/li>\n<li>Do we mean the same things when we say the following words:\n<ul>\n<li>Happiness.<\/li>\n<li>Dog.<\/li>\n<li>Friend.<\/li>\n<li>Tree.<\/li>\n<li>Lake.<\/li>\n<li>Green.<\/li>\n<li>Sweet.<\/li>\n<li>Scary.<\/li>\n<li>Beautiful.<\/li>\n<li>Book.<\/li>\n<li>Baby.<\/li>\n<li>Earth.<\/li>\n<li>Toy.<\/li>\n<li>Love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Do you think the words \u201cKnuffle Bunny\u201d were Trixie&#8217;s real first words? Why or why not?<\/li>\n<li>If you think that they were not Trixie&#8217;s first words, what were her actual first words? Why?<\/li>\n<li>What is the difference between a word and gibberish? What makes a word a word? What makes gibberish gibberish?<\/li>\n<li>Can gibberish have the same kind of meaning that a word can?<\/li>\n<li>What does it require to know a word? For a word to have meaning?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>You can find a charades activity based on <\/em>Knuffle Bunny\u00a0<em>in our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plato-philosophy.org\/teachertoolkit\/knuffle-bunny-philosophy-for-children-lesson-plan\/\"> Toolkit<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":204,"template":"","dqcategories":[380],"class_list":["post-1892","questionslibrary","type-questionslibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dqcategories-philosophy-of-language"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Knuffle Bunny - PLATO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Knuffle Bunny - PLATO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What do you think Trixie meant by \u201cAggle flaggle klabble\u201d? 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