Prompted by this I’ve been entertaining myself thinking of the greatest hits of analytic philosophy written in to a musical medley. https://twitter.com/SamuelVimes10/status/1348013562766221312
Descartes:
I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain
To see for certain, what I thought I knew.
Far far away, square towers look round, so
I wonder now, oh,
Am I dreaming too?
I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain
To see for certain, what I thought I knew.
Far far away, square towers look round, so
I wonder now, oh,
Am I dreaming too?
Quine:
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens,
Brown paper packages tied up with strings.
Quantify over them? You think they’re things.
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens,
Brown paper packages tied up with strings.
Quantify over them? You think they’re things.
Also Quine:
Please define the analytic / synthetic distinction-
If you do you’ll soon find that you’re stuck inside a ring, son.
Really there is nothing that is true by definition,
So much for the analytic / synthetic distinction.
(Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I)
Please define the analytic / synthetic distinction-
If you do you’ll soon find that you’re stuck inside a ring, son.
Really there is nothing that is true by definition,
So much for the analytic / synthetic distinction.
(Um-dittle-ittl-um-dittle-I)
Any more?
Jackson:
Let me tell you about a scientist called Mary,
Stuck inside a full black and white room.
How do you solve a problem like our Mary?
As she doesn’t know how roses look in bloom.
Let me tell you about a scientist called Mary,
Stuck inside a full black and white room.
How do you solve a problem like our Mary?
As she doesn’t know how roses look in bloom.
Hume:
Will the sun come out, tomorrow?
Don’t bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow
There’ll be sun.
Will the sun come out, tomorrow?
Don’t bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow
There’ll be sun.
Early Wittgenstein:
Nonsense keeps popping in my head.
Sometimes it’s better to just show
What can’t be said.
Nonsense keeps popping in my head.
Sometimes it’s better to just show
What can’t be said.