Math assholery 17 Feb 200824 Nov 2022 In particular, see the final panel… Cf. also here on Private Languages in philosophy Humor
Humor Why I like George Clooney 30 May 2008 Clooney deals with the attention in a self-deprecating fashion, usually making jokes about himself. “That’s the Australian way, it’s the right way to do it,” he says. From this article… Read More
Humor We may never fully understand it 16 Jun 2008 … why M. Night Shamaylanananan gets to make more movies. OK, Sixth Sense was cool, but really… So read this summary script of The Hapeninening and save your ticket money. Hat tip to Louanne Miller. Read More
Evolution Myth 7: Darwin thought that Australian aborigines were closer to apes than to Europeans 1 Mar 200925 Oct 2019 Actually, this one is better called “Darwin was a racist”, but as the text concerned is from the same source as those claims, I thought it might be easier to evaluate a single claim and generalise from that. Our gospel for today is chapters V and VI of The Descent… Read More
I mean that I didn’t know that Plantinga was a mathematician. Damn inscrutable English language. You’d think I’d have some ability with it, considering my surname. But no.
I really like the one on private languages in philosophy, it reminds me of a wonderful anecdote that I read years ago in John Passmore’s One Hundred Years of Philosophy. I no longer own this book and am quoting from memory so please forgive me if I don’t get it exactly right. A British philosophy once asked a German college, at a conference, why there was no English translation of Heidigger’s Sein and Zeit. His German friend replied, “Because it hasn’t been translated into German yet.” (Before somebody posts to say that there are now two Enlish translation, I know this and the anecdote obviously predates 1962)
What an obvious fallacy in the 5th panel. $5 times $1 is not 50,000 cents; it’s 50,000 square cents. Next time you’re in the USA, you just try passing off square cents at the store. Or don’t. Actually, clerks sometimes call the cops when somebody tries to give them a $2 bill.
As to the answer being Jesus: I don’t know if you have these Down Under, but there’s a perennially mildly popular bumper sticker here, saying “Christ is the answer”. I don’t know why no one has made a modified one: ‘”Christ!” is the answer.’
I think becaue people value their car’s windows and finish… I want one that says: “What was the question again?” and another: “God: I don’t know and neither do you”.