a little philosophy joke.

[Robert Mahnke]

i don't get it

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perfect...
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> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I will tell you a philosophical joke. Once upon a time, a visiting
>> scholar presented a lecture on the topic: ‘How many philosophical positions
>> are there in principle?’ ‘In principle,’ he began, ‘there are exactly 12
>> philosophical positions.’ A voice called from the audience: ‘Thirteen.’
>> ‘There are,’ the lecturer repeated, ‘*exactly* 12 possible philosophical
>> positions; not one less and not one more.’ ‘Thirteen,’ the voice from the
>> audience called again. ‘Very well, then,’ said the lecturer, now
>> perceptibly irked, ‘I shall proceed to enumerate the 12 possible
>> philosophical positions. The first is sometimes called “naive realism”. It
>> is the view according to which things are, by and large, very much the way
>> that they seem to be.’ ‘Oh,’ said the voice from the audience. Then
>> ‘Fourteen!’
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