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The Philosophers Dating Game



Host: "Welcome to the philosophers dating game. Simone de Beauvoir will interview our three mystery philosophers and decide which to go on a date with. Let's begin." Simone de Beauvoir: "Contestant number one, if you could imagine an ideal dream date, what would it be?" Bertrand Russell: "I would spend the night setting up a formal system of dating that is grounded in pure logic. " Simone de Beauvoir: "Uh...okay. Contestant number two, what was the best real date you ever had?" Alexius Meinong: "Well I went on a date with Pamela Anderson and she said she loved my system of ontology." Simone de Beauvoir: "No, I said real dates." Alexius Meinong: "Well, imaginary things are real, they are just lacking the property of existence. So in a sense I've been on a hundreds of great dates." Simone de Beauvoir: "Contestant number three, what do you find to be most beautiful in a woman?" Rudolf Carnap: "Actually i think you'll find that question to be nonsense because it has no empirically verifiable content." Alexius Meinong: "Alright, you know what? On second thought i don't want to date a philosopher at all. They are a bunch of weird nerds." Host: "Yes, that's what most of the contestants say."
Unpopular opinion: Aristotle was the beginning of the downturn of western philosophy, because he changed the philosophy of Socrates into what was a fundamentally nerd philosophy. In this essay I will...
Philosophers in this comic: Simone de Beauvoir, Bertrand Russell, Rudolf Carnap

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