Philosophy 101 - The Chair That Doesn’t Exist

An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final exam after a semester dealing with a broad array of topics. The class was already seated and ready to go when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on the board: “Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist.” Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair. One member of the class however, was up and finished in less than a minute. Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the group wondered how he could have gotten an A when he had barely written anything at all. His answer consisted of two words: “What chair?” How to get good grades in  College QuotaBills Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes Paddy O Furniture: Irish lawn chairs - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Death is philosophy's only problem. - Albert Camus WYMI - the all-philosophy radio station. - Mike Dugan History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius Easy Chair: The hardest one to find empty. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Theoretical physics is actually philosophy. - Max Born We are never to judge a philosophy by its abuse. - Augustine Our philosophy is that we care about people first. - Mark Zuckerberg America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric. - Doug Hamwell Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. - Sydney J. Harris I am not into working out. My philosophy: no pain, no pain. - Carol Leifer If you stand up and be counted, someone will take your seat. - Unknown The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. - Bertrand Russell Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. - Ambrose Bierce I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. - Charles Schulz A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. 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And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery. - John Lennon Albert Schweitzer's philosophy is that a sick, miserable African of today can be a strong healthy cannibal tomorrow. - Joe E Lewis Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in. - Rita Rudner My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy. - Thornton Wilder Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. 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18-Oct-2021