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Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Stupid/Oolca Paradox
Yesterday in my Classical Political Thought class, we were discussing what was going to be on our exam on Monday. Our professor had already told us about our first question when he asked, "Suzanne, would you like to tell us what you think the next essay is going to be about?" I just kind of looked at him for a few seconds then said, "Plato's Republic". We had been studying Republic since the beginning of the semester so it was obvious that everything on the test was going to be about it. However, Dr. Martin often asks questions like that; that appear to be difficult but are actually really simple if you don't over think. So it seemed like an answer he would be looking for. Wrong. As soon as I said it the entire class erupted into laughter. Dr. Martin replied, "Would you like to make your answer more specific?"
My question is this: is that a Stupid or an Oolca? If everybody in the class didn't know that I was serious and thought that I was trying to be funny, it was an Oolca. But, if they knew that that was my honest answer and were laughing because I'm stupid, then it was a Stupid. So, is it possible for something to be both an Oolca and a Stupid? It's a Stupid if you didn't do it on purpose, but an Oolca if everybody around you thinks that it was on purpose. Do we base it off of the crowd's perspective? If the person doing the action thinks that it's a Stupid but everybody around them thinks it's an Oolca, which one is it?
Tell me what you think about that.
Without Wax,
Suzanne
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After everyone laughed, did the professor say "okay, seriously, what will it be?" and then you didn't know, that's a stupid. lol.
I kind of had a stupid happen to me in class, but the professor made it into an oolca.
We were talking about Descartes for some reason in my physical chemistry class. The professor said "Are there any psych minors or double majors in here?", so I raised my hand. He was like, "Did they teach you about Descartes Psychology?". And I was just like "I think, therefore I am?", because I remember Descartes came up with that. And he was like "no, that's his PHILOSOPHY...... but you know, I always say.. 'I think, therefore descartes exists'" And we both laughed like it was some inside joke, lol.
I still felt stupid though. Psychology and Philosophy are practically the same thing anyway, lol.