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Philosophy | Dec 12 2002

When she returns from the airport bathroom (where she has presumably washed their two peaches), she sits down and says, “You weren’t paying attention.”

Looking up from his book, he says, “Yes I was.”

“What happened?”

“Nothing.”

*

Later they argue about philosophy.

Her: “There is a difference between belief and knowledge.”

Him: “Who can say what’s true other than what’s true for oneself?”

Her: “Haven’t you ever believed something that turned out to be false? There is a different between such beliefs and true beliefs.”

Him: “Perhaps everything I believe to be true is false—unbeknownst to me of course.”

Her: “Funny, that’s what I was just thinking.”