Question: What are a horse, a tree and a stone?
Step 1: Only the horse is an animal.
Step 2: The horse and tree are growing bodies, but the stone is not.
Step 3: All three count as bodies in the textbook’s scheme.
Answer: “body.” Adding a fundamentally different kind of thing can make the common answer broader.
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Mā Huwa: Asking What a Thing Is
Question: What are a horse, a tree and a stone?
Step 1: Only the horse is an animal.
Step 2: The horse and tree are growing bodies, but the stone is not.
Step 3: All three count as bodies in the textbook’s scheme.
Answer: “body.” Adding a fundamentally different kind of thing can make the common answer broader.