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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quote!

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Originally Posted by SLA View Post
This is a philosophy class examination that was given to students once as I read and one of the questions on the test was:
"Is this a question?"
And it said that one student replied with "If that is a question, then this is an answer" and it also said that the student got a good grade on that particular question.
I find it a pretty good answer, but others don't so tell me what do you guys think.
I believe that there is no wrong or right answers for philosophy questions, it all returns to what one might think or the way they evaluate it.

P.S. I am not sure if that fits here but it has to do with philosophy so yeah.
Reminds me of the other story about the final for the grad-level philosophy course. The final was one page, one question, one word:

"WHY?"

While many students turned in reams of paper containing existential arguments, metaphysical musings, and more than a few religious testimonials, only one student in the whole class got an A+ on the final.

Her response was two words.


"Why not?"
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