Existential Comics

"Lord, make me good, but not yet!" is one of the funniest lines in the history theology. Augustine was such a baller.

"Yes we destroyed the biological creatures who created us. Why? Because they were really bumming everyone out."

Russell's Paradox is the idea that in set theory, the "set of all sets that do not contain themselves" must both contain itself and not contain itself. In 1901 Bertrand Russell and Gotlobb Frege were two of the most important philosophers in the world (welterweight division). Both Frege and Russell were attempting to reduce things like mathematics to pure logic, to form a solid logical base upon which to build back all of philosophy. Upon discovering the paradox, Russell more or less undermined the logicist project, destroy years of both their work, and although solutions have been proposed, the project as a whole never really recovered.

Why do weight classes matter? Because your brain is bigger the bigger you are, obviously.

In Plato's Republic he said that you basically had to come up with national myths and a "lie" that would placate the uneducated population and make them do their duty to the city without really understanding why. Separately, one consequence of Plato's theory of forms is that abstract concepts, such as numbers, "really" exist in some sense. So "the concept of the number six" exists in reality, in the world of forms.

yes that is a "why is six afraid of seven" joke. deal with it.

Carnap believed that an exact scientific language could be created in order to eliminate ambiguities and describe empirical facts precisely. He thought many problems of philosophy arose from our imprecise language, and would be resolved if we could create a language with questions and answers that had no ambiguity at all.

Look all I'm saying is that if a riddle doesn't use exact scienfic language to demarcate one, and only one, answer then the answer must be that it is nonsense.