HAO: CONFRONTING THE FUTURE OF ARTS AND CULTURE FROM ASIA

HAO Joke, 01, Epistemology

September 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment

“A western anthropologist is told by a Voohooni that 2 + 2 = 5. The anthropologist asks him how he knows this. The tribesman says, “By counting, of course. First I tie two knots in a cord. Then I tie two knots in another cord. When I join the two cords together, I have five knots.”

 

Extracted from Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar… Understanding philosophy through jokes by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

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