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[...] Posted Oct 8, 2003
You like murder?
Not sure about philosophy...
'Item A is Item A... or is it?'
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 8, 2003
Only joking. Or am I...
How much philosophy have you read? Item A must be Item A. It is logically impossible that x is not x. Whether or not x exists, or we are perceiving it correctly is open to dispute, but we don't sit around going
"I think Item A is Item A."
"I think it's not."
"I think it is"
"I think it's not."
"I think it is"
"I think it's not."
"I think it is"
"I think it's not."
"I think it is"
"I think it's not."
"I think it is"
etc.
That would just be boring. At least read "The Consolations of Philosophy", by Alain de Boton? Very well written and amusing as well.
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[...] Posted Oct 8, 2003
You take my summarisation of philosophy as a mockery of it.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 8, 2003
It just didn't seem like it from the Item A comment.
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T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. Posted Oct 20, 2003
hey, just re-readin fith elephant and wondered if anyone else noticed the Chekov references?
the artist formerly known as 
, or 
for short
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T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. Posted Oct 20, 2003
that's Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, the play write, not Pavel Chekhov, the guy from Star Trek
the artist formerly known as , or for short
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 20, 2003
No.....
I've heard of Anton Chekhov though, don't know where from 
.
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Geggs Posted Oct 21, 2003
He be a Russian writer. He wrote "Uncle Vanya" and "The Three Sisters". His novels tend to be dark and gloomy.
Make of that what you will. 
Geggs
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T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. Posted Oct 21, 2003
he also wrote the Cherry Orchard. Hence Three Sisters, with an Uncle Vanya, who own a Cherry Orchard.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 21, 2003
Ahhhh. It sounded like a rip- off from somewhere....
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