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Re: Descartes's Stove

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Post by animaomnium »

actionfromafar wrote: post #38
ses1984 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here are two more for you. Sartre is sitting at a cafe and orders coffee with no cream. The waiter says, "I'm sorry, Monsieur Sartre, we are all out of cream -- how about with no milk?" man goes to bertrand russell. says he hates his beard but will not shave it. russell says "treatment is simple. great barber pagliacci is in town. he will shave all men (and only those men) who will not shave themselves." man bursts i…

I could use an explanation of the last one.

"but bertrand... I am pagliacci"

Induction: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/

Re: Descartes's Stove

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Post by Propelloni »

jimt1234 wrote: post #33

I majored in philosophy. Descartes is at the center of the only philosophy joke I ever heard. Socrates, Kant and Descartes were sitting in a bar, talking about baseball: - Socrates: Dodgers are gonna win it all this year. They're unstoppable. - Kant: Totally agree. Betts, Ohtani, Freeman. Go Dodgers. What do you think, Rene? - Descartes: Well, they have the hitting, but I don't think [Poof! Descartes disappears.]

This is a good occasion to pitch the sublime https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1

Re: Descartes's Stove

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Post by xandrius »

animaomnium wrote: post #42
actionfromafar wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could use an explanation of the last one.

"but bertrand... I am pagliacci" Induction: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/

Do you expect someone to read all that or is there a particular passages that would explain the joke?

Re: Descartes's Stove

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Post by animaomnium »

xandrius wrote: post #44
animaomnium wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"but bertrand... I am pagliacci" Induction: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/

Do you expect someone to read all that or is there a particular passages that would explain the joke?

You could read the whole thing but it would be quicker to infer that if I need to explain the joke,

Re: Descartes's Stove

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Post by ses1984 »

actionfromafar wrote: post #38
ses1984 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here are two more for you. Sartre is sitting at a cafe and orders coffee with no cream. The waiter says, "I'm sorry, Monsieur Sartre, we are all out of cream -- how about with no milk?" man goes to bertrand russell. says he hates his beard but will not shave it. russell says "treatment is simple. great barber pagliacci is in town. he will shave all men (and only those men) who will not shave themselves." man bursts i…

I could use an explanation of the last one.

It’s a combination of Russel’s paradox, and the joke about a clown named pagliacci.

Russel’s paradox is: there’s a barber in town who only shaves men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself?

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