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- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/It's_Funny_'Cause_It's_True_(Henrigillis_and_Gimbel)/zz%3A_Back_Matter
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/It's_Funny_'Cause_It's_True_(Henrigillis_and_Gimbel)/04%3A_Ethics
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/It's_Funny_'Cause_It's_True_(Henrigillis_and_Gimbel)/03%3A_Epistemology/3.04%3A_Stop_Saying_Things_are_Funny_Because_Theyre_TrueIf Your Professor Remembers the Year 2005 Ask Them What “Truthiness” Is Kenneth Burke, a philosopher of rhetoric famous for both his studies of the proclivities of human nature and his explorations of...If Your Professor Remembers the Year 2005 Ask Them What “Truthiness” Is Kenneth Burke, a philosopher of rhetoric famous for both his studies of the proclivities of human nature and his explorations of it in his personal life, says that the comic frame of understanding the world is useful for “making a man the student of himself” (171).
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/It's_Funny_'Cause_It's_True_(Henrigillis_and_Gimbel)/05%3A_Aesthetics/5.01%3A_AestheticsIntentionalism is the view that we cannot judge the quality of the work by only looking at the elements of the work itself, but need to also consider the intention of the artist in creating it. So, fo...Intentionalism is the view that we cannot judge the quality of the work by only looking at the elements of the work itself, but need to also consider the intention of the artist in creating it. So, formalism puts the important aspects of judgment in the work and intentionalism puts it in the mind of the artist, there is one more place it could be – in the experience of the audience.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/It's_Funny_'Cause_It's_True_(Henrigillis_and_Gimbel)/04%3A_Ethics/4.04%3A_Punching_Up_and_Down_in_the_Comic_Thunderdome37 As the reader’s gaze drifts from the gluttony depicted at the top of the picture to the bottom of the cartoon’s panel, the true source of their wealth is revealed to be the exploited 19 th century ...37 As the reader’s gaze drifts from the gluttony depicted at the top of the picture to the bottom of the cartoon’s panel, the true source of their wealth is revealed to be the exploited 19 th century industrial workers whose backs strenuously toil to support the greedy oligarchs for slave wages.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/It's_Funny_'Cause_It's_True_(Henrigillis_and_Gimbel)/02%3A_MetaphysicsThumbnail: The Universe is big (Unsplash License; Good Free Photos via Unsplash)
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/It's_Funny_'Cause_It's_True_(Henrigillis_and_Gimbel)/03%3A_Epistemology/3.01%3A_EpistemologyThe fact is that we have beliefs about the world and some of them are reinforced by the world in allowing us to do the things we want to do and some of them are destroyed by the world when the world d...The fact is that we have beliefs about the world and some of them are reinforced by the world in allowing us to do the things we want to do and some of them are destroyed by the world when the world does not allow us to do what we want to do.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/It's_Funny_'Cause_It's_True_(Henrigillis_and_Gimbel)/zz%3A_Back_Matter/10%3A_Index
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/It's_Funny_'Cause_It's_True_(Henrigillis_and_Gimbel)/02%3A_Metaphysics/2.05%3A_My_How_CleverTwo old men are sitting on a park bench feeding the birds when one turns to the other and says, “I know the name of every bird in this area.” The other one says, “You know all of them?” “Yup,” the fir...Two old men are sitting on a park bench feeding the birds when one turns to the other and says, “I know the name of every bird in this area.” The other one says, “You know all of them?” “Yup,” the first guy says, “all of them.” “How about that one?” the second man says pointing to a bird in a tree. “The black one with red and yellow on the wing?” “That’s the one.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/It's_Funny_'Cause_It's_True_(Henrigillis_and_Gimbel)/01%3A_Logic/1.02%3A_Thinking_CriticallyThe phrase “ad hominem” is Latin for “to the man.” The idea being that you are not addressing your concerns with the idea, with the argument, but directly to the person.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Philosophy/It's_Funny_'Cause_It's_True_(Henrigillis_and_Gimbel)/03%3A_Epistemology/3.03%3A_I_Laugh_Because_Its_AbsurdThis seems correct, but needs the following: being amused can be a diversion, but not necessarily, or not only that, and “for once” seems too weak – mistakes are everywhere, and with the properly cult...This seems correct, but needs the following: being amused can be a diversion, but not necessarily, or not only that, and “for once” seems too weak – mistakes are everywhere, and with the properly cultivated attitude, not only can we be primed to find them, we can actually enjoy the discoveries enough to want to repeat the experience of error-detection, so that we are open 14 to the possibility of errors and become better equipped to recognize them in the future.
