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 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 Easy Chair: The hardest one to find empty. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Theoretical physics is actually philosophy. - Max Born Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. - Chinese Proverb Our philosophy is that we care about people first. - Mark Zuckerberg 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 Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven If you stand up and be counted, someone will take your seat. - Unknown We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross 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 Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. - Ambrose Bierce Tragedy: a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with an empty seat. - Unknown Academe: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught - Daffynitions joe-ks.com 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. Life is so endlessly delicious. - Ruth Reichl It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. - Isaac Asimov Committee work is like a soft chair - easy to get into but hard to get out of. - Kenneth J Shively Philosophy may teach us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of our neighbors. - Oscar Wilde 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 University: 1. A college with a stadium seating more than sixty thousand; 2. A mental institution. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. - Unknown I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams 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 A university is an institution that has two thousand seats in the classrooms and eighty thousand in the stadium. - Unknown 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 Albert Schweitzer's philosophy is that a sick, miserable African of today can be a strong healthy cannibal tomorrow. - Joe E Lewis 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 Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis 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 Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov Arm Chair Artistic Chair CD Chair Chair Boy Chair Folders Chair Man Mao Chair Master Chair Ruler Chair Skiing - Redneck Water Sport Cushion Chair Shoes Every Man’s Philosophy Evolution and Philosophy Grill Chair Lawn Chair Pilot Musical Rocking Chair My Chair Nail Chair Philosofacts Philosophers On Wives Reading Chair Redneck Backyard Chair Redneck Chair Potty Rock-In Chair Russian High Chair Construction Sheep Chair Shopping Cart Chair Texas Rocking Chair Wine Glass Chair Winter Chair   Ready Soon Mud Flops Been Lapped How To Use The New 1940 Dial Telephone Garmin Drive Redneck Bucket List Rotating Illusion - Pink Eye Trick Boneless Bananas That's My Bed Eye For Coffee Logging Moose Firemen's Revenge Just In Thyme Kapalua Resort - The Plantation Course Alberta Hood Ornament Outside Urinal Fixer-Uppers Just Divorced Flannel Frontier Humour in the Workplace

16-Oct-2021