Ancilla Domini Posted March 26, 2014 Author Share Posted March 26, 2014 Philosophy teacher: Hume claims that we cannot know the true shape of the table, because if we look at it from this angle, it's a rectangle, from another angle, it looks like a square, from another, it looks like trapezoid, and so on. Then a smart guy comes along... Me: ...with a tape-measure Yeah, I'm brilliant. I can disprove Hume's philosophy with a tape measure. :P hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximillion Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 But the tape measure only identifies (possibly) dimension, it does not define shape....... :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted March 26, 2014 Author Share Posted March 26, 2014 But the tape measure only identifies (possibly) dimension, it does not define shape....... :unsure: That's true. But the tape-measure was as far as I could get without doing any thinking. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) But the tape measure only identifies (possibly) dimension, it does not define shape....... :unsure: Hume, the shape of the table, and the tape measure are all irrelevant philosophical constructs. Wha matters is that the table holds my sammiches! (Cilla, you may have to use your glasses to read this part.) Some people - especially philosophers - have too much time on their hands, and no practicality! Edited March 26, 2014 by Luigi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted March 26, 2014 Author Share Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) Hume, the shape of the table, and the tape measure are all irrelevant philosophical constructs. Wha matters is that the table holds my sammiches! (Cilla, you may have to use your glasses to read this part.) Some people - especially philosophers - have too much time on their hands, and no practicality! I personally couldn't care less whether the table that holds my sammiches is round, or square, or the shape of a grand-piano. What matters is whether the sammiches are tasty. :P Edited March 26, 2014 by Ancilla Domini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentJoy Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Size and shape are entirely relative to tastiness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted March 26, 2014 Author Share Posted March 26, 2014 Size and shape are entirely relative to tastiness. I disagree. No matter how tasty a ham sandwich is, if it is cut diagonally, it will ruin anyone's appetite. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentJoy Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I disagree. No matter how tasty a ham sandwich is, if it is cut diagonally, it will ruin anyone's appetite. :P Now I know how to get your sammich without actually stealing it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted March 26, 2014 Author Share Posted March 26, 2014 Now I know how to get your sammich without actually stealing it... Now I know never to let you within arm's distance of my sammich... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) My new eyes have arrived! :P Edited March 28, 2014 by Ancilla Domini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pia Jesu Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 "I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it." Thoreau Bottom line: Viewed in certain ways, the whole world is a sammich! :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) "I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it." Thoreau Bottom line: Viewed in certain ways, the whole world is a sammich! :rolleyes: According to Parmenides, (a pre-socratic philosopher) there is no change, which results in there being only one thing in the world, of which we are all basically just bits. According to this philosophy, maybe we're all bits of sammich! :P Edited March 28, 2014 by Ancilla Domini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentJoy Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 maybe we're all bits of sammich! :P According to the philosophies of dragons, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pia Jesu Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Marvelous insights! A phenomenologist would seek to find the essence of a sammich--by removing such variables as pickles, lettuce, etc. Yet a poet might use the attributes of a pickle (sweet, sour, pickled), for example, as an extended metaphor for the human condition! With lettuce being either wilted or fresh...it could well represent...? Methinks I'm overthinking this...and please don't start a new thread titled "Life is a Taco"! :paco2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 Methinks I'm overthinking this...and please don't start a new thread titled "Life is a Taco"! :paco2: One can never overthink sammiches!Hmmm...."Life is a Taco"...I will have to consider this one. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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