Amusing typogarphical errors 1 7 Sep 2007 theotre: a church or temple, wherein gods are displayed and perform… Humor
Administrative For the past week, I’ve actually been in Germany 15 Oct 2009 You know those stories about absent minded professors? I just showed that you don’t actually need a professorial appointment. I was meeting Steve Clarke, a leading philosopher who is at Oxford, at 12.45. I turned up on the dot at St Cross College (they have such great names here!), but… Read More
Epistemology The Philosophers’ Menu 4 May 2010 The Philosophers’ Menu Presuppositions. Kantelope Assorted carnaps Pareto soup Hart-boyled eggs with a rescher of bacon Major Premises Jugged hare, with milled popper Skinnered peacocke, with nashed paretos Plato’ the Day Humeburger, with gibbard gravy Frankfurts and schauer kraut Bass van frassen [sic] Nagels and lockes Frege legs with russell… Read More
Humor Dyspepsia and swallowing crap 2 Dec 2007 The Institute for Intellectual Disco Dancing has spun its recent debacle at Minnesota thus: The dyspeptic and ad hominem blogger/biologist Dr. P.Z. Myers was there and brought a Darwinist claque. Note that in passing it is not a fallacy to be ad hominem if the point is relevant to the… Read More
John, your post brings to mind an article I once read about single letter typos. It may have been in Scientific Armenian some decades ago. An example from the article was ‘I love your daughter’ instead of ‘I love your laughter’, and the trouble that could ensue from such a miss-print. A possessive father might think such laughter warrant slaughter. You see how it goes. Slightly off-topic is second guessing what the current POTUS might mean when he utters anything at all. Verbal typos, as it were. We think we know he meant ‘Australian’ when he recently commented on ‘Austrian’ troops in Iraq, and we think we know he meant ‘APEC’ when he spoke of ‘OPEC’ at the same venue. And this leads me to wonder if his advisers and staff have to continuousloy second-guess the meaning of anything he says or any instructions he gives them, and what the consequence of getting it wrong might be. An example: ‘Lynch them assholes’ or ‘Launch the missiles’ springs to mind. A nutter failure to communicate.