""It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them" Thanks for the quote, Ed. It surprised ME for awhile, when I was deeply involved. But I finally saw that some were just too concerned with their place in the pecking order and getting recognition and/or jobs. In my group of grad students, we fortunately had a decent amount of humor, and it really helped in keeping all those odd theories in perspective. A notice on the bulletin board once: The Audio-Visual Center announces a film on "Plato's Republic" to be shown at...etc. under that in pencil: Next week they will feature " The Great TUPA- Kant's Transcendence of Pure Apperception- starring Julie Newmar as the Sensible Manifold.
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