Whoa. This is awesome.

csi_spy | June 12, 13:35 CET

Nice idea, not so sure about the specifics though. E.g. I hope the author didn't actually define materialism that way in their exam cos they're gonna lose marks - materialism "...disregards the brain entirely" ?? Err, no, not so much (unless that's a 'Dollhouse' quote that I can't place ?). Some of the others are a bit suspect too.

There're a lot of philosophical ideas touched on in 'Dollhouse' though, fer sure.


ETF a plural.

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Saje | June 12, 15:06 CET

Ouch. Just about every single one of those "definitions" was wildly inaccurate or just plain wrong. Speaking as someone with a PhD in philosophy and who was a university lecturer in the subject for about five years. I hope no one else uses any of this for an exam.

dzr | June 12, 17:41 CET

I'm glad that someone with a doctorate in philosophy weighed in on those answers. I'm merely a dabbler in philosophy, but I was appalled at what was written.

palehorse | June 12, 18:48 CET

Yeah, always handy to have someone who knows the material really well weigh in. Bit leery of being too emphatic in these situations because with stuff which I do know a bit about the pattern of understanding often tends to go

Is that true ? -> That's true -> That's true but a bit simplistic -> It depends

so when something that I don't know really well (as in this case where i'd hesitate to even claim 'dabbler' ;) seems really wrong I always wonder if it's that they're way off base or just that i'm still on "That's true" and they're talking the language of "It depends".

Saje | June 12, 21:22 CET

Seconding dzr here - I got through about half of those before the sustained exposure to inaccuracy killed me. I hope this was a joke, as I could see some of these "definitions" being attempts to lightly mock the subject matter (metaphysics is probably the clearest one).

goingtowork | June 12, 21:43 CET

Wondered that myself, "Abstract theory or talk with no basis in reality." sounds a lot like someone (possibly an engineer ;) who's finally got to the end of a slightly frustrating course in philosophy.

(but most of the rest miss the mark to some extent both as definitions and humour)

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Saje | June 13, 06:51 CET