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Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
Sun May 6, 2012, 01:41 AM May 2012

FLASH: Ludwig Wittgenstein quoted on LIVE national TV!!!!

After the Kentucky Derby was over, the owner of I'll Have Another, the winner, J. Paul Reddam, was presented with the silver cup. He then was asked by Bob Costas, "As a former professor of philosophy at USC, what great philosopher's ideas would you say that apply to your win?"

Mr Reddam said "Ludwig Wittgenstein said that after all philosophical problems have been solved, nothing useful has been accomplished -- so we went into horse racing!!"

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FLASH: Ludwig Wittgenstein quoted on LIVE national TV!!!! (Original Post) Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 OP
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panopeagenerosa

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Sun May 6, 2012, 08:09 AM
May 2012

How does that reasoning go? 'I'm wasting my time teaching undergrads so I'll go help perpetuate institutionalized cruelty to animals instead'?

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