"Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son" - Riddle of the Day

Answer: The man in the oil painting is the man's son.

Explanation:

According to the hint

The riddle is grounded on a tricky piece of language that requires careful attention to the words used. When the man says," Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son," he's actually relating to himself

Let's break it down step by step

" Brothers and sisters have I none" This means that the man has no siblings.

" That man's father" refers to the person's father in the oil painting.

" Is my father's son" means that the person in the oil painting is related to the man somehow through his father.

Putting these pieces together, we can conclude that the person in the oil painting is related to the man in some way through his father, but isn't his brother or sister. The only other possibility is that the person in the oil painting is the man's son.

We can use a bit of logic to see why this is the case. However, that means he's either an only child or the youngest child in his family, If the man has no siblings. However, also" my father's son" would relate to himself, and the riddle wouldn't make important sense if he were an only child. thus, we can assume that the man isn't an only child, but is rather the youngest child in his family.

Now, if" my father's son" refers to the man, then" that man's father" would relate to the man's own son. This means that the person in the oil painting is related to the man through his son, which is only possible if the person in the oil painting is the man's own son.

thus, the answer to the riddle is that the person in the oil painting is the man's son.

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