A philosophy professor, widely noted as being more than casually eccentric, gave a one question final exam after an entire semester dealing with a broad array of topics.
The class was seated and ready, when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on the board:
"Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist."
Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair.
One student, however, was up and finished in less than a minute.
Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the group wondered how this person could have received the highest grade when he had barely written anything.
They found his answer consisted of two words:
"What chair?"
---------------A Final Thought ...
"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
- G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), British author