Inna G.'s definitions

Philosophy

1.n. From the Greek "philo",love, + "sophia", sofa; Literally, the love of sofas; The act of theorizing from an armchair.
2.n. An accidental side-effect of language.
3.n. A type of disease which used to be widespread in antiquity associated with the Y chromosome.

Socrates died of philosophy.

by Inna G. May 21, 2006

logical positivism

1.n. A proposed cure for the illness known as philosophy (love of sofas), which sadly proved nothing but a palliative by presupposing the definitions of the very processes it set out to define.

The proponents of logical positivism had a jolly good time taking turns reading Hegel at parties and cracking up hysterically.

by Inna G. May 21, 2006