Reply To: Is Your Fifth-Grader Smarter Than a Breadbox?: Twenty Questions 3.0
I decided not to be pedantic with that question, so I answered it literally. The object, as it exists in its usual state is not a living thing, nor has it ever been, nor is it or has it been a part of a living thing. So I did not, intentionally, consider any potential components or smaller elements of the object nor their origins.
Example:
Stuffed dog was a living thing so I would have answered yes.
A statue cast in bronze which contains a stuffed dog’s leg as a clock arm, I would have answered no.