Philosophical Question (on truth)

[AmericanPride]

Thanks for the input everyone. I should have taken more philosophy in school....

[Ron Humphrey]

Up side- You can believe whatever you want whenever you want about whatever you want

Down side-
So can everyone else

[Van]

AP,
Philosophy is great if you don't take it or yourself too seriously.

"Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar" is an excellent intro to philosophy. The most important thing to remember is that the answer is unimportant. How you structure the argument to support your answer is everything.

[wm]

AP,
Philosophy is great if you don't take it or yourself too seriously.

"Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar" is an excellent intro to philosophy. The most important thing to remember is that the answer is unimportant. How you structure the argument to support your answer is everything.

For what it's worth Wittgenstein once ruminated on the possibility of doing philosophy through nothing but a series of jokes. I think it has ag reat deal of merit. For example (and a bad one I admit):

Rene Descartes goes into a restauarant and orders a meal.
The waiter asks: "Would you like soup with that?"
Descartes replies, "I think not" and disappears.

[marct]

For what it's worth Wittgenstein once ruminated on the possibility of doing philosophy through nothing but a series of jokes. I think it has ag reat deal of merit.

LOLOL - I wonder of Wittgenstein ever got into Buddhism? There are at least two fairly major strands of it that take a similar position (jokes, paradoxes, etc.).