Most Significant SF & Fantasy Book

Steven mcquaryq at comcast.net
Fri Nov 17 22:44:59 CST 2006


	No. 3 is Hume.  I guess I get an F.


On Nov 16, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Monte Davis wrote:

> Three philosophers are riding the train to Edinburgh for a scholarly
> conference. They see a black sheep in a pasture.
>
> "Interesting: the sheep in Scotland are black."
>
> "No... there exists at least one black sheep in Scotland."
>
> "No... There exists at least one sheep, *one side of which is  
> black*, in
> Scotland."
>
> (Assign them nationality -- or school of philosophy-- to taste.)
>

Steven



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