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Ludwig Wittgenstein, considered…

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022Weirdo

Ludwig Wittgenstein, considered by many to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th Century, was asked by his sister to help build a house. He spent a year designing the door handles.

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Linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin…

September 15, 2020Weirdo

Linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin made the claim that there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative during a lecture. To which someone responded, “Yeah, yeah.”

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In 1728, the philosopher Voltaire…

April 12, 2019Weirdo

In 1728, the philosopher Voltaire got rich by outsmarting the lottery. The prize money was larger than the cost of all the tickets combined, so Voltaire and his friend formed a syndicate, bought all the tickets, and won several times.

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Ancient Roman philosophers sported different styles…

September 7, 2016Weirdo

Ancient Roman philosophers sported different styles of beards to distinguish which school of philosophy they belonged to.

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When Alexander the Great asked the philosopher Diogenes why he was…

July 30, 2015Weirdo

When Alexander the Great asked the philosopher Diogenes why he was sifting through the garbage, Diogenes responded,”I am looking for the bones of your father but I cannot distinguish them from the bones of his slaves.”

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There are two famous guys named Hippocrates. One for…

September 22, 2014Weirdo

There are two famous guys named Hippocrates. One for medicine and one for mathematics.

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During a lecture an Oxford philosopher made the…

April 29, 2013Weirdo

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 tone, “Yeah, yeah.”

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Guy Debord, French Marxist literary theo …

December 21, 2012December 21, 2012Weirdo

Guy-DebordGuy Debord, French Marxist literary theorist, published his first book with a sandpaper cover so that books placed next to it would be destroyed.

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A man who lived 2000 years ago was said …

August 30, 2012Weirdo

A man who lived 2000 years ago was said to be the Son of God by his followers, performed miracles, and was executed by Roman authority….and it wasn’t Jesus.

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