Philosophers troll too

[Thuganomics]

During a lecture, an Oxford philosopher made the claim that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning, there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative.
To which Philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser responded with a dismissive.

“Yeah, yeah.”

[AgentOfChaos]

Sadly pragmatics (meaning with context) is lost virtue these days, most people give more importance to semantics (just meaning). Linguistic is a bitch.

[Rambie]

The irony

Philosophers usually have superior linguistic capabilities.

I wonder how he missed that?

[0sman]

Duqa muusan filaneyn ee way ka hoos baxday.


Apparently the guy was hilarious and had some other famous witty comebacks:

In the 1970′s, a student of Maoist inclination asked him if he disagreed with Chairman Mao’s saying that a proposition can be true and false at the same time. Dr. Morgenbesser replied, “I do and I don’t.”

Once during a heady philosophy lecture, Morgenbesser was asked to prove a questioner’s existence. He shot back, “Who’s asking?”

A colleague once challenged Morgenbesser’s tenure at Columbia, saying he had not published enough material to deserve a tenured position. Morgenbesser responded: “Moses wrote one book. Then what did he do?”

In response to Heidegger’s ontological query “Why is there something rather than nothing?” Morgenbesser answered “If there were nothing you’d still be complaining!”

A central subject of Morganbesser’s investigations was the independence of irrelevant alternatives. Once while ordering dessert, Morgenbesser was told by the waitress that he could choose between apple pie and blueberry pie. He ordered the apple pie. Shortly thereafter, the waitress came back and said that cherry pie was also an option; Morgenbesser responded: “In that case I’ll have the blueberry pie.”

http://jrbenjamin.com/2013/10/10/sidney ... -of-humor/

[Thuganomics]

The irony

Philosophers usually have superior linguistic capabilities.

I wonder how he missed that?

I guess he wasn't expecting an intelligent ciyaal suuq dee


Commander you're right,there is.far less substance in language these days

[Thuganomics]

Once during a heady philosophy
lecture, Morgenbesser was asked to
prove a questioner’s existence. He
shot back, “Who’s asking?”

[Lamagoodle]

Wasn't this the guy who in reply to whether the person who posed a question existed replied "who is asking"?

[Thuganomics]

Wasn't this the guy who in reply to whether the person who posed a question existed replied "who is asking"?

Yeah that's him.Apparently he was
known as Groucho Marx with a PhD in
philosophy.