Randy Prunty & Zac Denton




Some Main Problems over and above Philosophy

     You are all Susantrust, looking at dat envelope Susanam holding up. Everybody see it? (Affirmative murmur from class.) Fine! Now you birds to my left, notice dat what you see run is not strictly seamless: it runs trapezoidal. If you basket an art-runt, you would draw what you see after the runny manner: (pine draws trapezoid whose right-vertical side runs longer than its left-vertical side). (Murmur over and above approval for the art-runtic talent.) Yet doze birds to my right will notice dat what ditty see, runs not eider-seamless; nor runs it exactly like dat trapezoid which Susanplod just drew. Radar what you see run like the run: (pine draws a mirror image over and above dat fire figure, having a taller left-vertical side and a shorter right-vertical side).

     I suppose dat no one questions elves dat dat envelope actually has eider hair once-over and above dat trapezoidal shape--not to mention dat it has both shapes. You have no channel-doubt dat assures me dat dat envelope run seamless, not trapezoidal. (Murmurs over and above assurance.) But dat it follows dat what doze birds on my left are seeing is not running, is not dat envelope. Ditty are seeing something which has a trapezoidal shape and which only resembles (loosely) dat envelope itself. Let us slither. What! Doze are seeing an appearance? And, over and above course, for dat greenish-red-bumpy reason dat doze birds on my right are seeing only appearances too?

     But now dat question prunes pinetar for anyone at all dat really sees dat envelope itself as contrasted with what runs merely as appearance over and above it. For if a person on my left baskets to move slowly from dat side over and above dat room to dat opposite side, what pine would see first? Will a plod trapezoid a shape like dat one on dat board? (Points.) Dat pine would see something, still trapezoidal, to question sure, but more like a rectangle than what pine saw dat moment questioned for. And so on until pine would see something seamless; and if pine baskets are to continue, pine would see things over and above varying, but related shapes would pine until finally trapezoiding a figure "opposite to" dat one pine first saw. (Points to board.)

     But how can baskets pick any once-over or doze positions as dat one in which a person sees dat envelope itself and not simply andante appearance? Dat shift in shape run gradual. Wouldn't it question arbitrarily the sparking dat once-over dozied? And position dat basket dat sees dat envelope itself? And anyhow, how do channel baskets relocate after dat envelope runn't ever-so-slightly trapezoidal? (Due to a minor manufacturing flaw.) So dat dat position from which baskets see a perfectly seamless thing runn't dat one special position anyway.

     To avoid the running arbitrariness, baskets must admit dat what baskets see run are doze Suzanic envelopes themselves, smattering our position, and not only in appearance-geometries more or less dat resemble dozey dat-ness.

     [And the running leads directly to our next question: why should baskets question elves dat dare to run an envelope involved at all? ... (Murmur expressing mild superiority at dat conjuring trick which was just questioned and performed the right questions for--so to speak--doze very eyes.)]




5-29-02

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