February 23, 2006

Philosophy

Filed under: Entries — arglor @ 3:02 pm

I met a fellow philosopher at LCBF. He studied philosophy at the university of texas and apparently focused his studies on Immanuel Kant. Kant is a very distinguished philosopher, as i’m sure most of you know. He was also religious. All the same, I’m very pleased that there is someone around here that will laugh when i make sly philosophical jokes about existence and knowledge.

I make a lot of those. No one usually gets them.

It isn’t my fault.

5 Responses to “Philosophy”

  1. snaars Says:

    Youve probably heard this one: An engineer, an experimental physicist, a theoretical physicist, and a philosopher were hiking through the hills of Scotland. Cresting the top of one hill, they see, on top of the next, a black sheep. The engineer says: “What do you know, the sheep in Scotland are black.” “Well, *some* of the sheep in Scotland are black,” replies the experimental physicist. The theoretical physicist considers this for a moment and says “Well, at least one of the sheep in Scotland is black.” The philosopher responds, “On one side, anyway.”

  2. wduluoz Says:

    I thought the philosopher would say something like, “well, if our senses are to be trusted, then the sheep appears to be color that closely resembles black on the side that we happen to be looking at, but that doesnt necessarily mean that it is in fact black or it is a sheep or we are in scotland.” wilbur

  3. snaars Says:

    Wilbur, If I were certain of your existence, or of my own, or that these strings of symbols convey some thing called “meaning”, then “I” might actually respond with something which might be referred to as a specific “attitude” or “state of mind” which might be called “humor”.

  4. mayfly Says:

    [quote:ede9352e44=”snaars”]Wilbur, If I were certain of your existence, or of my own, or that these strings of symbols convey some thing called “meaning”, then “I” might actually respond with something which might be referred to as a specific “attitude” or “state of mind” which might be called “humor”.[/quote:ede9352e44] “huh”? just kidding. actually that was pretty damn “hilarious.”

  5. arglor Says:

    I like the first joke.. it was classic waxing philosophical…