From the first sentence we get to know that the person who is describing the puzzle has no brother and sister as he says, "brothers and sisters have I none". From the second sentence we get to know
that the man who is describing the puzzle is talking about himself and "that man" is his son.
The way in which this puzzle is described is very confusing as well as interesting.
Good, Karmdeep. But what exactly makes it interesting (and confusing)? Can you . analyze that a bit?
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susan. I solved this problem by visualising the whole scene. I considered myself as the speaker, and I literally thought about my father to solve the sentence "my father's son," which came out to be me. After that, I thought about the whole sentences "that man's father is my father's son" together. At first I got so confused whether that man is me or that man's father is me. After making visualizations for so long I came to the conclusion that "that man" would be my son. The way in which it is represented engaged me in critical thinking. I felt so curious to quickly get the answer, and also felt satisfied after solving this problem. In this way I found it interesting.
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