an acts without reason-which man does, according to the Houyhnhnms, with every evil act. Perhaps the most difficult and obvious counter productive evil the Houyhnhnms must understand is saying "the thing that which is not." Falsehood is so distant from the Houyhnhnms' personas-because it does not subscribe to any rational thinking-that the Houyhnhnms can only see mankind as acting absurd whenever they lie.

Gulliver must explain lying (to say "the thing that which is not") to his Master Houyhnhnm in order for the Master to gain a better understanding of European humans. Houyhnhnms being near infinite rational beings naturally established several rules for lying to be ridiculous. First, the Houyhnhnms establish that communication is done in order to let people understand one another. Conversation is done to give and receive facts. So speech (being a form of communication) is done with the goal or intention to inform. To say that which is not is to defeat this end becau

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