"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher."
-Ambrose Bierce, "Epigrams"
If a tree falls and no one hears it, does it make a sound? "I Used to Know That: Philosophy" examines this and many other related questions. Spanning over some two-and-a-half thousan[...]
Philosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated, whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's nobody around to hear it (Berkeley) or declaring that everything in the universe is in a state of flux (Heraclitus). But is philosophy really so complicated?[...]