Monday, March 20, 2006

A Question About Woodchucks




Question: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Answer:

No woodchucks chuck wood. But if a woodchuck could chuck wood, then a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Suppose a woodchuck named Chuck could chuck wood. How much wood would Chuck the woodchuck chuck? Well, Chuck the woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck wood. Does this imply that because Chuck the woodchuck could chuck wood, that all woodchucks could chuck wood. No. Just because one woodchuck could chuck wood, does not mean that all woodchucks could chuck wood, although one woodchuck, Chuck could chuck wood.

By S.V.

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