If you pluck all the hair from a zebra, is it a white horse or a dark horse?

This is a white horse. Let's talk in detail! I've heard of the zebra effect. For the color of the same zebra, you can say that it was originally white, but it had black stripes. But he can also say that the background of a zebra is black, and it is the white stripes that make it a zebra. This effect shows that different perspectives have different results. What color is the skin under the zebra striped coat? If someone asks us this question or questions about answering questions, they may not be able to answer ordinary questions. It happens all the time in life. A question that is not a problem at first may make you feel embarrassed immediately. Zoologists like to study and are in no hurry. The following selected pictures and words released by National Geographic Network vividly reveal this problem. What is the skin under the animal fur? Especially animals with striped or striped fur, such as big cats and zebras, what is their skin like? Let's solve the animal problem this week.

From a logical or philosophical point of view, a white horse is not a horse. Judging from the language expression, a white horse is not a horse. The key issue here is that Chinese is a high-context language, that is, it pays attention to context when expressing. This advantage is that a small amount of language can express a lot of meaning, which can also be called "information". I can judge by the thickness ratio of English books translated into Chinese books, but Chinese is not as compressed as English. This is also because of the context and a lot of information. At the same time, Chinese is more prone to ambiguity. So many people's words were cut off. This is a black meal, so a white horse is not a horse (a white horse is a horse) has different meanings in different contexts. Philosophically and logically, it is probably equivalent to, so of course, a white horse is not a horse. Horses are the abstraction of all horses.

"A white horse is not a horse" is a famous debate held by hundreds of scholars on behalf of Gong Sunlong during the Warring States Period. Its charm lies in that you have been listening from beginning to end, and every sentence makes sense, but the conclusion is contrary to common sense and unexpected. If you want to find out the mistakes in words, you can't find them. If you want to overthrow this fallacy, you have no countermeasures!

Domestication is a long process, not overnight. It takes generations of reproduction to turn wild animals into poultry and livestock. The area where wild animals began to be domesticated is the area where civilization was first born, and the progress of civilization on the African continent where zebras live is very slow. Except for the splendid ancient Egyptian civilization in North Africa, there are almost no highly developed ancient civilizations in sub-Saharan Africa. Primitive tribes that slash and burn do not need war horses, so ancient African aborigines did not domesticate zebras.