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 Reclimbing chair - Archie Bunker 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 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 Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. - Denis Diderot 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 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 It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. - W S Gilbert 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 You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. - Stephen King 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 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 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 Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. 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16-Jan-2021