Things heard in my philosophy a-level class:
"I've slammed Descartes like three times in this essay already..."
"I always imagine Hume coming in on a skateboard, wearing sunglasses."
"I was explaining intuition and deduction thesis to my mum and now she hates Descartes."
"I actually liked Aristotle until he said that only white, male philosophers can flourish."
"... the evil demon, a.k.a. Mr. Phillippou, ..." [an ex-philosophy teacher of our school]
The teacher: "left-handed people are superior. I tried to force my kids to be left-handed when they were learning to write..."
"Descartes pisses me the fuck off."
"... G. E. Moore, a.k.a. G. E. Awful, ..."
"I love error theory. It just says that everyone is wrong all the time."
"What's that guy in the Gettier example with the barns called?" "Barney." "No, no, it's Henry." "Wait, Henry? I thought it was Harry!"
"I always remember that name because my great aunt named her pet rabbit 'Carruthers'."
"But the concept of infinity doesn't make sense!" "Well, according to Georg Cantor's set theory, it does." "What even is set theory, then?" "Don't even go there. You don't need to know, so just don't ask."
"Onto and Teleo are okay, but I just can't with Cosmo. Don't even get me started on Aquinas' ways..."
"Eschatological verification is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. No offence to Hick or anything..."
"Do you think Richard Hare's friends ever called him 'Dick Hair'?"
"I don't understand how some people can even doubt qualia..."
"P-zombies freak me out."
"So you'd be willing to concede that if everyone in China had walkie-talkies, they'd be considered a mind?" "... I mean, yeah. Why not?" "You're not supposed to say yes!"
