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Do my Homework for Me, Damn You

ciceronianus
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Posted 11/03/09 - 08:04 AM:	#11
I'm ashamed to admit I hadn't thought of deliberately posting wrong answers. In that case, perhaps the new forum should be entitled: "Post Requests for Homework Assistance Here" or something of the sort.
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Posted 11/03/09 - 12:29 PM:	#12
"Wrong" is perhaps too strong a word. The answers ought be just reasonable enough to allay suspicion. We might share the story that Descartes' main contribution to philosophy was of course Cartesian co-ordinates, and that the philosophical system he created is called pointillism. Or that Kant contributed the golden rule: Do the other guy in first. Other suggestions?
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Posted 11/03/09 - 05:02 PM:	#13
An interesting idea might be for a student to have Professor Searle provide an explanation of his own work and then the student can pass that explanation off as his own. This experiment will determine if the student's professor believes that Professor Searle understands himself.
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Posted 11/04/09 - 01:41 PM:	#14
Paul wrote: I like the idea of a "do my homework" forum where all the regulars intentionally post wrong answers to amuse readers and professors. The demanders are typically newbies, and probably wouldn't read the answer before turning it in, so they wouldn't notice. That would be amusing, but I have read that there's a limit to the amount of factually incorrect information possible on the internets, and they would explode or melt down or something if that limit is exceeded. I wouldn't want to be responsible for that, especialy since they probably have ways of finding out who did it.
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Posted 11/04/09 - 03:30 PM:	#15
How's this? Wittgenstein's last words were apparently something along the lines of "Tell my friends I've had a good life." So, one could tell someone that W's greatest contribution to philosophy was his theory of the good life.
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Posted 11/04/09 - 05:17 PM:	#16
ciceronianus wrote: So, one could tell someone that W's greatest contribution to philosophy was his theory of the good life. I always thought that the theory of the good life was written by Hefner And what about Tsun's writings on the painting of battle pictures, that would be an interesting topic for any newbee
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Posted 11/04/09 - 06:03 PM:	#17
Even if we can't get a whole subforum, maybe we could commandeer this thread. . .?

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Posted 11/04/09 - 07:00 PM:	#18
Just for the record, I'm not really going to post inappropriate answers to anyone's questions. Unless, of course, this post is just a cover to make people trust me again...
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Posted 11/05/09 - 01:24 AM:	#19
Paul wrote: I like the idea of a "do my homework" forum where all the regulars intentionally post wrong answers to amuse readers and professors. The demanders are typically newbies, and probably wouldn't read the answer before turning it in, so they wouldn't notice. How about writing a script and letting Modbot give the answers?
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2 of 2 people found this post helpful Posted 11/05/09 - 09:02 AM:	#20
Other suggestions? Plato invented asexual friendships. Roger Bacon proved that Aristotle could not count horse's teeth. Dr Johnson exploded Berkeley's theory of ideas by kicking a stone, thereby founding British Empiricism. Bertrand Russell's theory that the atomic bomb could be founded on pure logic was tentatively debunked by the Goedel-Oppenheimer Uncertainty Principle. Hume believed that billiards was more important than religion but that miracles were unlikely to occur in either. Nietzsche first wrote for Marvel Comics.

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