Baron Prášil is the Czech name for the historical and literary character Baron Münchhausen.
The stories, more often than not, were taken from or were imitations of the Baron Münchhausen stories of Rudolf Erich Raspe.
In philosophical arguments concerning the reducibility (or otherwise) of the human mind, Dennett's concept pokes fun at the idea of intelligent design emanating from on high, either originating from one or more gods, or providing its own grounds in an absurd, Münchhausen-like bootstrapping manner.
Raspe, best known as the author or translator of the Baron Münchhausen stories, was also a chemist with a particular interest in tungsten.
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