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Sometimes called `imponderables' or `rhetoricals', they do not necessarily have answers. These silly questions are always amusing and often interesting because they concern the little unnoticed contradictions in life. Why do we write things down but type them up? Why do ships carry a cargo, while cars carry a shipment? And how did the guy who made the first clock know what time to set it to? This is philosophy for the man and woman in the street, but stuff the real philosophers are not able to answer. Our response can vary from `Yes, I've often wondered about that', through `How the hell…mehr

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Sometimes called `imponderables' or `rhetoricals', they do not necessarily have answers. These silly questions are always amusing and often interesting because they concern the little unnoticed contradictions in life. Why do we write things down but type them up? Why do ships carry a cargo, while cars carry a shipment? And how did the guy who made the first clock know what time to set it to? This is philosophy for the man and woman in the street, but stuff the real philosophers are not able to answer. Our response can vary from `Yes, I've often wondered about that', through `How the hell should I know?' to `Who cares? This is the biggest collection of sillies ever assembled, and by the time you have finished reading them, you will begin to spot new questions for yourself, so it is a game anyone can learn and play. Have fun reading them using them to confuse and amuse others --- teachers, students ,parents, spouses, bosses, employees, and anyone you want to take down a peg.
Autorenporträt
Desmond MacHale was educated at University College, Galway where he graduated with an M.Sc. degree in Mathematics in 1968. He took a Ph.D. in Group Theory at the University of Keele in the UK and spent nearly forty years lecturing in Mathematics at University College Cork. He retired as Associate Professor of Mathematics in 2011 and now devotes his time to research in abstract algebra including Boolean rings. In 1985 he wrote the first full-length biography of Boole, reissued as The Life and Work of George Boole--a Prelude to the Digital Age, published by Cork University Press in 2014. He has lectured and published widely in Ireland and abroad on Boole's life and work, as well as appearing on numerous radio and television programmes. He is currently working with former student Yvonne Cohen on a sequel New Light on George Boole. Professor MacHale has written over sixty books on topics such as Puzzles, Recreational Mathematics, Jokes and Humour, Quotations, John Ford's film The Quiet Man, and Lateral Thinking