Joanna
----- Original Message ----- On 4/28/2012 8:45 PM, Eubulides wrote:
> I'll repeat; fuck Aristotle. He was wrong on physics, biology, metaphysics.
So he's like some kind of joke?
If being right is the most important, maybe he should get his due for this:
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/17/holt.php
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There are three competing theories of jokes. The “superiority theory,” which can be traced back to Plato and Aristotle, holds that we find something risible when we feel superior to it. The classic statement of this theory was supplied in the seventeenth century by Hobbes, who declared that laughter expressed “a sudden glory arising from some conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others.” On this theory all humor is at root mockery and derision, all laughter a slightly spiritualized snarl.
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