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>From: geoff@fulcrum.oz.au (Geoff Halprin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.philosophy.meta,sci.philosophy.tech,talk.philosophy.misc,sci.logic
Subject: Re: why question
Message-ID: <1992Jun5.073942.5184@fulcrum.oz.au>
Date: 5 Jun 92 07:39:42 GMT
References: <1992Jun3.194126.2521@cheshire.oxy.edu>
Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
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In <1992Jun3.194126.2521@cheshire.oxy.edu> panero@cheshire.oxy.edu (Jan Panero) writes:

>  My question was, and is, does anyone know the origin of the story.  The story goes:
>A professor gives a philosophy final exam on which the only question is "Why?"
>all the students in the class except one spend the full three hour period
>furiously trying to answer such a broad question.  The one other student in the class left within 5 minutes.  His answer was simply "Why not?".  He is the only
>student in the class to receive an "A". 

I remember a similar story from a few years back, where the question on the
paper was "Answer this question."

The guy who got top marks just answered "Question this answer."

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