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Subject: Re: [OM] alcohol; retro cameras
From: Chris Waigl <chrisw@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 02:34:36 +0100
>>>Thanks Roger.  I only remember about 2 or 3 things from reading Immanuel
>>>Kant, and one is the rejection of the Ontological Proof (of God's
>>>existence) in which he said something like "If I have a thought that there
>>>might be a thaler in my pocket, it doesn't mean I am going to find one
>>>there." Kant's one and only joke, as far as I know.

Actually, no. Once you get used to his style, he's in fact quite 
humourous. I remember laughing out loud when I stumbled over the
passage where he said that two people arguing the question 
"what is truth?" amounts one milking a he-goat while the other one
holds a sieve under. 

Chris W.

-- 
chris waigl

     I am now prosecuting some things with an engine I formerly 
     writ to you of.            (Robert Boyle, to Hardlib 1659)

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