{"id":1912,"date":"2016-09-27T01:51:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T05:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nwcenter\/wordpress\/?post_type=questionslibrary&#038;p=1912"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:30:01","slug":"owl-at-home-owl-and-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"questionslibrary","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/questionslibrary\/owl-at-home-owl-and-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Owl At Home &#8211; &#8220;Owl and the Moon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is it to be alive? <\/strong><strong>How can we tell if something is alive or not?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It moves.<\/li>\n<li>It has a face.<\/li>\n<li>It eats.<\/li>\n<li>It sleeps.<\/li>\n<li>It talks.<\/li>\n<li>It grows.<\/li>\n<li>It dies.<\/li>\n<li>It feels.<\/li>\n<li>It thinks.<\/li>\n<li>It communicates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Are the following alive? Why or why not?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rocks.<\/li>\n<li>Water.<\/li>\n<li>Cars.<\/li>\n<li>Bees.<\/li>\n<li>Toasters.<\/li>\n<li>Books.<\/li>\n<li>Light.<\/li>\n<li>Rain.<\/li>\n<li>Feelings.<\/li>\n<li>Animals.<\/li>\n<li>Movies.<\/li>\n<li>The sun.<\/li>\n<li>Trees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What goes to sleep? Do the following things go to sleep, don&#8217;t go to sleep, or you don&#8217;t know?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grass.<\/li>\n<li>Light.<\/li>\n<li>The moon.<\/li>\n<li>A bear.<\/li>\n<li>A river.<\/li>\n<li>A fish.<\/li>\n<li>The rain.<\/li>\n<li>A tree.<\/li>\n<li>A door.<\/li>\n<li>A television.<\/li>\n<li>The world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Knowledge and Belief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can the moon be looking at Owl? Why does Owl think so?<\/li>\n<li>Does Owl\u2019s belief that the moon is looking back at him give us a reason to think this might be true? Why or why not?<\/li>\n<li>What makes something true?<\/li>\n<li>How could we find out if Owl\u2019s belief that the moon is looking at him is true?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":194,"template":"","dqcategories":[376,374],"class_list":["post-1912","questionslibrary","type-questionslibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dqcategories-epistemology","dqcategories-metaphysics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Owl At Home - &quot;Owl and the Moon&quot; - 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=\"Owl At Home - &quot;Owl and the Moon&quot; - PLATO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What is it to be alive? How can we tell if something is alive or not? It moves. 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