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: To explain the concept of infinite regress (the idea that every cause must have a cause), the authors use the "turtles all the way down" joke, where an elderly woman claims the world rests on the back of a turtle, which rests on another turtle, and so on.

: The book highlights how jokes often hinge on logical fallacies. For example, they illustrate the Argument from Analogy with a story about a man who mistakenly tries to shoot a bear with an umbrella; when the bear dies, he assumes someone else must have actually shot it. Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understan...

Here is how the book "tells its story" through these philosophical branches: : To explain the concept of infinite regress