Impossible riddle

This "riddle" seems to be a dialogue which illustrates the philosophical position called "non-duality" i.e. "Things and thingers are mutually co-existent". There is no separate existence of "things", even though we operate as such in everyday life.

There is no "difference" between "an orange" and "an orange" in the mind of the thinger of an orange, because "an orange" merely expresses a general expectancy of relationship between thinger and thinged. That expectancy of relationship replaces "properties of objects" in normal parlance. Thus there is no expectancy that "pancakes" will stick to "igloos" on the part of the thinger of those two concepts, nor can the thinger of trees be a tree because "thinging" is not expected of "trees".

Just to return to an actual situation of two oranges, in a particular context there will be functional differences (size, colour etc) evoked by the observer between what were originally equivalent items, but note that such differences also involve expectancies. In general, similarity and difference are always in the domain of the thinger.