Comments on: This is not a webpage http://surrealnotions.com/2009/05/this-is-not-a-webpage/ Designing simple solutions for people... not machines Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Josh http://surrealnotions.com/2009/05/this-is-not-a-webpage/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Josh Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:57:05 +0000 http://surrealbydesign.com/?p=22#comment-241 @Doug D. I occasionally would ask them fun questions. For instance, what if time oscillates between two points? Or, how can "good" be defined? Here's the thing about philosophy majors (at least many of the ones I knew), they think they know everything. Asking questions like that will take them down a rabbit hole of logic they're simply not equipped for. It was fun tying them up in their own obsession with logic, accuracy and precision. After all, one class of symbolic logic is as good as being an expert, right? Never mind the more complex logic I was studying at the time in classes like discrete mathematics, analysis of algorithms and artificial intelligence ;) @Doug D. I occasionally would ask them fun questions. For instance, what if time oscillates between two points? Or, how can “good” be defined? Here’s the thing about philosophy majors (at least many of the ones I knew), they think they know everything. Asking questions like that will take them down a rabbit hole of logic they’re simply not equipped for. It was fun tying them up in their own obsession with logic, accuracy and precision.

After all, one class of symbolic logic is as good as being an expert, right? Never mind the more complex logic I was studying at the time in classes like discrete mathematics, analysis of algorithms and artificial intelligence ;)

]]> By: Doug D. http://surrealnotions.com/2009/05/this-is-not-a-webpage/comment-page-1/#comment-240 Doug D. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:29:54 +0000 http://surrealbydesign.com/?p=22#comment-240 Josh, "my favorite college pastime-screwing with inebriated philosophy majors". Can you expand on that a little? Love your website. We need to have a glass....soon! Josh,
“my favorite college pastime-screwing with inebriated philosophy majors”. Can you expand on that a little? Love your website. We need to have a glass….soon!

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