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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
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...judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree...

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." (Albert Einstein.)

What is "stupid" in the fish belief in Einstein's aphorism? Is it "judging a fish by its ability to climb a tree" or "climbing a tree by the fish itself"?

  

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I can't tell what you mean by "fish belief", exactly, but I will try to explain. If people scorn a fish because he can't climb very well, he will feel bad and think he is stupid.

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  • I can't tell what you mean by "fish belief", exactly, but I will try to explain.
  • If people scorn a fish because he can't climb very well, he will feel bad and think he is stupid.
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I can't tell what you mean by "fish belief", exactly, but I will try to explain. If people scorn a fish because he can't climb very well, he will feel bad and think he is stupid.

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tkacka15What is "stupid" in the fish belief in Einstein's aphorism? Is it "judging a fish by its ability to climb a tree" or "climbing a tree by the fish itself"?

The fish itself is stupid.


The idea here is that every person has a genius for doing something but if you judge them by assessing their skill in things they're not good at, they will lo

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You have to use logic and common sense to connect pronouns with their antecedents or postcedents.

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