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Feb 6, 2018 2:19 PM
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vanaman
dostaneš facky, bude to platit
Thund3rCh1ld
1800th Century??
DirtyWhiteShoes
You're
ICarpeYourDiems
*Chomsky goes and kills the all Pirahã
llamalibrarian
yay, I used my philosophy degree for something!
just4thelolz
That Plato was a dick for keeping those people imprisoned in a cave. Makes me sick! Same goes for that Schrödinger guy. Leave cats alone!
TheNewAndImprovedUser
Isn't one of the points of the cave example that they're happy with just seeing the shadows on the wall?
Irishda
Heidegger has nothing on Derrida. That Frenchman's goddamn essays can go eat a dick
Irishda
"What if I said everything De Saussure said...but no one knew it"
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
Oh God, fuck Heidegger. That gives me nightmares from my BA in Philosophy.
vaginadiner
Wow this awesome!! Got any more similar ones
mverdoux
no sorry but go through the "philosophy" tag on imgur there are several great dumps
confanity
Maybe it's because Chomsky is a yutz and "universal grammar" is a wishful-thinking fever dream.
RealNamesAreNotGreatUsernames
Heidegger was on something. Not on to something, just on something.
RealNamesAreNotGreatUsernames
"What is art? Well, it's a thing, right? Great. But what's a thing? Everything. But there are different kinds."
mverdoux
oh i know that passage it must've been a fucking torment for the translator to somehow put sache, ding and zeug into english
DigiVibes
Anyone care to explain Zeno or at least link me with some good sauce? @mverdoux
mverdoux
check the wiki articles about zeno and especially zeno's paradox(es)
LordToast
More! Finally Something truly funny in here
22ndCenturyTransient
Which philosopher was the one that got killed for asking too many 'gotcha' questions and acting like a smug dick?
clonetrooper250
How am I meant to distinguish between all these marble statue heads of bearded old men?
weekdaynachos
#13 So Mark Aurel is actually Marcus Aurelius?
mverdoux
yes the guy who did that meme must've been german
HoweJ
Assuming 'differ' was already there, it'd be 6+(2+1+4+4+1+1)=19x2=38. Not a bad overall score, but even I can do that.
HoweJ
And I'm just an average Joe.
PartyHatGladOS
To be fair, Neitzsche died alone and depressed in his mid 40s or somthing to that extent. I think the industrial revolution won that.
Bearto
He went crazy after he saw a man beating an old horse in the street. He went and collapsed after hugging and comforting the horse while 1/2
bhikku
he was committed and suffering from a syphilitic brain. i doubt he was even coherent enough to be depressed.
Bearto
sobbing. He later awoke believing himself to be Caesar, Napoleon, etc.
dengarsdingus
I wish I was smart enough to understand these.
mverdoux
there is a nice philosophy meme dump with explanations just go through the imgur "philosophy" tag it was rather recent
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
It isn't a question of intelligence, its a question of context and familiarity. Mostly. If you're a complete idiot, well...yeah.
kschulzpul
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/19
TheShadowsLengthen
"To meme or not to meme, that is the question."
fizixx
#3 when my GF is driving
GoochoLibre
Bentham's heeead~
bobjimbob
upvotes for deathlings!
GoochoLibre
I want it as a text alert but so far, no dice.
SuperBeetle76
I feel like this post caters to a nietzsche audience.
JacktheDullBoy
Ya, it's a Nietzsche market.
IAmTheBeachIWorship
That shouldn’t be surprising given the overlap of depression and love of memes
PartyHatGladOS
it actually caters to the people that think he is edgy and don't understand his real motivations.
Molvanian
#10 ...? I feel I missed something.
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
Chomsky developed a theory of universal grammar underpinning all language. An Amazonian tribe's language doesn't fit. Theory disproved.
SassMistress
#10 And thus began a fistfight in some linguistics lounge, somewhere.
Qualtagh
Someone, tell me more about this conflict.
GreaterDog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#Behavior-centered
ThomasMontgomeryHaverford
Very basic version: Chomsky's theory of universal grammar argues there are universal properties to all human language. For example, every 1/
ThomasMontgomeryHaverford
language differentiates between noun objects and verb objects. However, the Piraha language does not have recursion, which is used in every2
ThomasMontgomeryHaverford
other language (e.g. "Bob said that Mary thinks Steve is ugly."). And that implies the properties are not universal, thus undermining the 3/
ThomasMontgomeryHaverford
central premise of Chomsky's theory. 4/4
SassMistress
Also, Chomsky-ans are pretty attached to the theory. Not fans of people throwing it out the window with every little smoking gun.
IRandomycommentinJapanese
lol the piraha one
xenathewarriorprincesswashot
explain it to me, so I can pretend to be smart to my friend John, who's trapped in the Snow.
SassMistress
In 140 characters? Challenge accepted.
SassMistress
Armchair theory Universal Grammar: humans all have same language wiring, but vary the settings. 1 constant is recursion, which Piraha can't.
HermitTurtle
An example of a sentence with nested recursive verb clauses from Wiki: "Mary said that John thought that Henry was fired". 1/
HermitTurtle
Chomsky champions a Universal Grammar theory in regards to the evolution of all language and recursion clauses are included in that. 2/
HermitTurtle
Piraha has no such clauses according to fellow linguist Daniel Everrett. 3/3
Atwthepig
klearlykosher
Well, now we finally have an answer to the age old question "But what can you do with a philosophy degree?" Memes.
xenathewarriorprincesswashot
to meme or not to meme.... this was never the question
Bearto
I just minored in it, but a buddy of mine went into law with the major.
kittyMoonWrecker
Or to work with computers..programming is a natural language for them
SmolTenk
Jobs are sparse but out there. But you better know that its what you want.
AncientAliensSayYes
Use logic and reasoning to get the job you want.
dasklaus
I publish philosophical card games. (debating games, formal logic, trolley problems, this kind of stuff.)
Skulties1
Teach
jaijaikali
Law school or go for you PhD and become a philosopher, and teach college.
DichotomusPrime
The answer for most of my friends seems to be Law School. Argumentation comes in real handy there.
swicks
I have a philosophy degree and am studying to get into law school
kittyMoonWrecker
Yeah...and to drive a wife mad, that is for sure..other women have it sooo easy on the fighting department, me? Better prepare my argument!
ButtEyeDyeGrass
Fun fact: philosophy and literature are the top 2 degrees for getting admitted into law school
DichotomusPrime
Doesn't surprise me. Two degrees where deconstructing and analyzing opposing argument is SUPER central.
ButtEyeDyeGrass
True true. Now if only I wanted to be a lawyer, instead I just use my degree to bother people about free will and shit.
Enohpoxas
But do we truly have a free will?
UltimateMilkSandwich
#11 "1800th century"
DoubleNubbin
I mean, being able to go that far into the future would be pretty wild. Definitely worth missing a party for.
dijital101
In the year 17925, if man is still alive
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dijital101
Gah, you're right.
SaltismySugar
SaltismySugar
Source is Pop Team Epic, so you all know. It's friggin' amazing.
idontenglishsorry
SaltismySugar
Dude... is that a tech-priest stealing a toaster???
PrimarchVulkanXVIII
ChemicalCookies
RRRIV
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