Prints available in my shop of this one from last year. The perfect Christmas gift for the philosophically-inclined office wall . Limited edition, numbered and signed giclee art print - link to shop in bio. #philosophy
![Print of a cartoon by Stephen Collins. Script as follows:
[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]
1
SOCRATES:
Plato..
PLATO:
Yes Socrates?
2
SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?
PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates
3
SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?
PLATO:
Um, yep
4
SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then
5
[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]
SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?
6
PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel
7
SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.
PLATO:
No.
8
SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]
So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?
9
PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really
10
SOCRATES:
So are we not human?
PLATO:
‘Spose not.
11
[Bleak pause]
12
PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock
SOCRATES:
Yeah
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EnCeeMaths@enceemaths.bsky.social · 4d agoGo to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.
Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.
Starfleet Design 🖍🖖@starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 4d agoGo to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.
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EnCeeMaths@enceemaths.bsky.social · last mo.#MathsToday Found in a charity shop... Can you guess when it was first published? Last century, clues in the Preface.
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