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[smilingtransfer]

Let's say that we've had a very long conversation about horses. And in the course of this conversation, we've decided to call a horse's tail a leg. I'm not sure exactly how I convinced you, but rest assured, I was very persuasive.

Now, a simple question: how many legs does a horse have?

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[peoplesprincess]

Still four.

[smilingtransfer]

Why?

[peoplesprincess]

You can decide to call it a leg for the course of a conversation all you want, but that doesn't change what it is.

[smilingtransfer]

You've heard this one before.

[stripping]

Is it either five or four? I'm not ready to pick between those yet, but those would be the obvious answers.

[smilingtransfer]

I can assure you that the answer is a number.

[stripping]

That wasn't very helpful. All right, then, I pick five.

[smilingtransfer]

It's four, actually. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

[netdiver_ed]

REAL legs or PRETEND legs?

[smilingtransfer]

The choice is yours.

[netdiver_ed]

four REAL legs

one PRETEND leg

five ALLTOGETHER

unless legs are now tails too but personperson never said so

[alittlemoonlite]

One.

[smilingtransfer]

Whatever horses you have on your world must not be very skilled at running.

[alittlemoonlite]

Are you getting some kind of sick amusement out of this?

[smilingtransfer]

The usual answers are four and five, that's all. I never said the four traditional legs had stopped being legs.

[hands4healing]

A horse would still just have four legs. Even if you called the tail a leg.

[smilingtransfer]

Not as many people are fooled by this as I expected.

[hands4healing]

That's good to know.