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 Rock Music: Sung in a rocking chair - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes Paddy O Furniture: Irish lawn chairs - Daffynitions joe-ks.com WYMI - the all-philosophy radio station. - Mike Dugan History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius Theoretical physics is actually philosophy. - Max Born Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. - Chinese Proverb One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down. - Romanian and Russian Proverb Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. - Denis Diderot 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 Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. 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And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. - Bono My uncle's dying wish was to have me sitting in his lap; he was in the electric chair. - Rodney Dangerfield The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. - Peter Lynch I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down. - Unknown Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt. - Paul Harvey I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. - WC Fields I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. - Henny Youngman America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. - Arnold Toynbee You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. - Stephen King Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery. - John Lennon I'll see you at the opera tonight. I'll hold your seat till you get there. After that, you're on your own. - Groucho Marx My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already. - Wendy Liebman The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. - Epictetus 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 writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good. - Amanda Peet I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. 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19-Oct-2020