a profound philosophical joke

May 10, 2010 09:40

«This story is told by the Cambridge analyst John Edensor Littlewood in his lovely little book A Mathematician's Miscellany:

Schoolmaster: 'Suppose x is the number of sheep in the problem.'
Schoolboy: 'But, Sir, suppose x is not the number of sheep.'
Littlewood says that he asked the Cambridge philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein whether this was a ( Read more... )

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ps1kodel1k May 11 2010, 00:30:41 UTC
С наступившим!

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ulis May 11 2010, 21:39:50 UTC
São as profound philosophical jokes que nos ajudam a perspectivar com um bom espírito.
Que se perspective um óptimo ano para ti também ; )
abraço

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guil May 11 2010, 21:52:58 UTC
obrigado! :))
abraço!

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