Plato and a platypus walk into a bar... :
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TextPublication details: London : Oneworld, 2016Description: 194 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781786070180 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Philosophy | Philosophy -- Humor | PhilosophyDDC classification: 102.07 LOC classification: BD31Summary: Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is, And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived until you think about death all the time. Crammed with over 100 jokes and graced by the occasional cartoon, written in a Marxist style (Groucho's, not Karl's) and featuring frequent appearances from a comic two-man Greek chorus, 'Plato and a Platypus' is a hilarious romp through the calssic areas of philosophy.
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| 100 .H771 1995 The Oxford companion to philosophy / | 100 .L415 2003 The philosophy gym: 25 short adventures in thinking / | 100 .R658 2007 Introducing philosophy / | 102.07 .K641 2018 Plato and a platypus walk into a bar... : | 108.3 .D249 2011 Warum gibt es alles und nicht nichts? | 109 .B144 2019 How the world thinks : | 121 .F762 1970 The order of things : |
Originally published: as by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. New York: Abrams Image, 2006.
Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is, And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived until you think about death all the time. Crammed with over 100 jokes and graced by the occasional cartoon, written in a Marxist style (Groucho's, not Karl's) and featuring frequent appearances from a comic two-man Greek chorus, 'Plato and a Platypus' is a hilarious romp through the calssic areas of philosophy.