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I was surprised when I first learned that this was a novel philosophical concept, because I recall reading a Renaissance-age Italian story(maybe from the De Cameron?) that talks about this:

Basically, a man sees his wife walking in the town square with the hat of a friend of theirs, and this leads him to believe that she is cheating with that friend. It turns out that he just offered the hat to her in the market, to help her carry some eggs home, and she was going to return it. So, she goes and returns it, the husband follows her, and it turns out she actually is cheating on the husband with the friend, but the hat hat nothing to do with it.




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