[gruez]

>Around the same time I tested whether Santa existed by putting out food; when no one ate it I assumed Santa was fake.

That doesn't seem like sound logic to me. Maybe he's just too busy to eat food that was put out at every house? You'd get pretty full by eating a cookie from every house in your neighborhood.

[mayoff]

The 6-year-old in the story was presumably led to believe that Santa can visit every house in the world in one night. Logically, normal human limitations (like a finite capacity to eat cookies) do not apply to Santa.

[kzrdude]

It's logical to test the model that was presented to him by the adults.

[Jeff_Brown]

Easier to just inspect the chimney dust.

I wonder how many children have tried to poison Santa.