ok - I went looking for answers elsewhere and found this ...
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Clearly, both the hunter and the squirrel went around the tree,
but did the hunter go around the squirrel?
Well, he orbited the tree in a larger orbit, but he never went around the squirrel
and saw his back, his side, his belly, etc.
What’s the answer? Smart guy William James said that the argument is meaningless
because there is no objective difference that can be defined as to
“did go around squirrel” vs “did not”.
That’s the essence of his theory of Pragmatism.
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So in a sense, we are all right. He did and yet did not.
Semantics, not geometry - whatev.