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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 3:03amSanction this postReply
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My Top 10 at 3am, by A-Z (or W):

Augustine: Hippo
Camus: Found exit
Dawkins: Suicidal genes
Derrida: Deconstructed
Kant: Found the means to his own end
Levi-Strauss: Eaten by natives
Quine: Became a free variable
Skinner, B F: Bad behaviour
Turing: Failed his own test
Wittgenstein: Became the late Wittgenstein

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I like these:

The First Law of Philosophy: For every philosopher, there exists an equal and opposite philosopher.
The Second Law of Philosophy: They're both wrong.

A philosopher went into a closet for ten years to contemplate the question, What is life? When he came out, he went into the street and met an old colleague, who asked him where in heaven's name he had been all those years.
"In a closet," he repied. "I wanted to know what life really is."
"And have you found an answer?"
"Yes," he replied. "I think it can best be expressed by saying that life is like a bridge."
"That's all well and good," replied the colleage, "but can you be a little more explicit? Can you tell me how life is like a bridge?"
"Oh," replied the philosopher after some thought, "maybe you're right; perhaps life is not like a bridge."

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 11:13amSanction this postReply
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Love it!

Ed


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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 12:03pmSanction this postReply
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LOL!

Fantastic!

Darwin: Became unfit
Aquinas: Last causes
Descartes: Stopped thinking

Some of the best!

Andy.

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 2:16pmSanction this postReply
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My Top 10 at 3am, by A-Z (or W):


What - no Z??  [Zeno - he couldn't make it to the end....]


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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 2:20pmSanction this postReply
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I couldn't make it to the end either.

UK

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 2:33pmSanction this postReply
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Even though I didn't know of all the philosophers, I liked the "causes" of death:

Aquinas: Last causes
Cassirer: Symbolic causes
Heisenberg: Uncertain causes
Hobbes: Nasty causes
Mach: Unsensational causes
Machiavelli: Intriguing causes
Malcolm: Undreamed of causes
Malebranche: Occasional causes
Marx: Material causes
Wheeler: Manifold causes

I'd like to put up a science joke next... :)

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Friday, March 31, 2006 - 8:45amSanction this postReply
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Rousseau: Nobly savaged

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Friday, March 31, 2006 - 10:06amSanction this postReply
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Good one, Glenn! Lemme' try one ...

Parmenides: Stillborn

Ed


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Friday, March 31, 2006 - 11:39amSanction this postReply
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Russell: cut himself shaving

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Friday, March 31, 2006 - 1:09pmSanction this postReply
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Hey, I just noticed that some of the philosophers aren't dead yet!  What's up?  Reminds me of a scene from Monty Python.

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Friday, March 31, 2006 - 5:11pmSanction this postReply
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Physically not, maybe - but mentally?

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Saturday, April 1, 2006 - 2:22amSanction this postReply
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Those are fun. How about-

Smith: Causes not visible
William of Occam: Entity decreased
Kierkegaard: 5th story leap of faith
Bentham: Of no consequence
Schrodinger: Mauled by cats
Locke: Earth mixed its labour with him
Spencer: Unfit
Turing: Halted
Leibniz: Dis-integrated
Gauss: Eliminated
Euclid: Non-Euclidian ontology
Nietzche: Uberman unterground
Keynes: Entered the long run


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Sunday, April 2, 2006 - 3:26amSanction this postReply
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LOL on the Neitzsche one, Aaron :D
For that I give you a Godelian kiss: a kiss that takes an extraordinarilly long time, yet leaves you unable to decide whether you've been kissed or not.

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Sunday, April 2, 2006 - 9:11amSanction this postReply
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I had this down as the explanation for the death of Leibniz ...

malignant monadoma

Ed
[does it warrant a 'kiss'?]


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Sunday, April 2, 2006 - 12:23pmSanction this postReply
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Jenna- *laugh* I'm left feeling somehow.. incomplete, but thank you.

Ed- That's a stumper. I couldn't even find any English language context Googling 'monadoma'. Can you explain? (I promise no kisses though, not even a Kantian)


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Sunday, April 2, 2006 - 2:01pmSanction this postReply
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Ed:

Aristotelian kiss:
a kiss performed using techniques gained solely from theoretical speculation untainted by any experiential data by one who feels that the latter is irrelevant anyway.


[given that you like to quote articles so this particular definition is satirical ;) ]
(Edited by Jenna W
on 4/02, 2:03pm)


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Sunday, April 2, 2006 - 5:09pmSanction this postReply
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Aaron,

It was a spoof on that rare, little known, combination of the deadly skin cancer 'malignant melanoma,' with the Leibnizian idea of monads.

Ed
[and I'll settle for a game of pool -- if you're going to ROR Conference 1 this May  :-)]


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Sunday, April 2, 2006 - 5:22pmSanction this postReply
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Thanks for that lovely onscreen kiss, Jenna. I was hoping that you would make the choice you did.

And by the way, have I ever got some beef with you: I do NOT 'like to quote articles' -- of which the evidence can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. So there!

Hmph!

:-)

Ed
[not going to wash his computer screen for a whole year]


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Sunday, April 2, 2006 - 5:53pmSanction this postReply
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Thanks, my disease knowledge was lacking; your Leibniz one is clever. Is this RoR conference near Atlanta?


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Sunday, April 2, 2006 - 6:23pmSanction this postReply
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Aaron, here is the overview of your journey, should you decide to make it ...



... and here is a closer view (I believe we're in a beach-house, on the shore of Lake Tohopekaliga, but check with Joe) ...



... and here are your (potential) driving directions ...

Go SE on GA-154 (Trinity Av SW) for 220 feet  
< 0.1 miles
 
 
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Turn right onto Washington St SW
 
0.4 miles
 
 
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Continue onto Pulliam St SW
 
0.5 miles
 
 
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Enter on ramp to I-75 S (I-85 S, James Wendell George Pkwy, South Expwy)
 
0.2 miles
 
 
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Continue on I-75 S (I-85 S, James Wendell George Pkwy, South Expwy)
 
67.8 miles
 
 
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Bear right onto off-ramp at exit 177 to I-475 S (GA-408 S)
 
0.4 miles
 
 
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Take I-475 S (GA-408 S) Ramp
 
0.1 miles
 
 
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Continue on I-475 S (GA-408 S)
 
15.1 miles
 
 
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Exit on ramp to I-75 S (GA-401 S)
 
0.3 miles
 
 
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Continue on I-75 S (GA-401 S)
 
300 miles
 
 
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Exit on ramp at exit 328 to Florida's Tpk (Ronald Reagan Tpk)
 
0.7 miles
 
 
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Continue on Florida's Tpk (Ronald Reagan Tpk)
 
58.8 miles
 
 
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Bear right onto off-ramp at exit 249 to Dart Blvd (Osceola Pkwy)
 
0.2 miles
 
 
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Take Dart Blvd (Osceola Pkwy) Ramp
 
0.2 miles
 
 
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Continue onto Dart Blvd (Osceola Pkwy)
 
1.4 miles
 
 
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Turn left onto US-17 (US-92, US-441, US 17-92, Orange Blossom Tr)
 
1.8 miles
 
 
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Continue onto US-17 (US-92, US-441, US 17-92, Main St)
 
0.5 miles
 
 
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Continue onto US-17 (US-92, US 17-92, Main St)
 
0.5 miles
 
 
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Bear right onto Church St
 
0.3 miles
 
 
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You are at Kissimmee,FL


*all from randmcnally.com

Ed


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