A fire has just been lit to... «Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction»

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    kitties_with_days
    13 сентября 2022

    A fire has just been lit to roast some meat. The fire hasn’t started sending up any smoke, but the smell of the meat has attracted a cloud of insects. From a distance, an observer sees the dark swarm above the horizon and mistakes it for smoke. ‘There’s a fire burning at that spot,’ the distant observer says.

    Does the observer know that there is a fire burning in the distance?

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