The Imaginary Island
Does the island exist in any useful sense?
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The Imaginary Island
A mapmaker adds a made-up island to catch anyone copying his map. Sailors begin telling stories about the island. Decades later, tourists ask to visit it.
Does the island exist in any useful sense?
Then ask
- Would belief make it more real?
- What if people built a town named after it?
The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.