...said "I'm trying to win an argument on the internet that's been raging for two hundred and fifty posts and in which I'm the sole remaining debater holding up my end of the position. It's crucial to me that I prove these imaginary people in my computer wrong, so give me the answers I want so that I can crush them and make them see how right I am!"Originally Posted by David Armstrong
This probably made the people in the Philosophy department, not normally used to being asked for concrete absolutes, happy as clams. Once upon a time, the Philosophy Dept. guys would have had to calibrate their response to you against the Right Answer, which was a platinum-iridium alloy bar stored in a vault in Paris, but since 1960, the Right Answer has been redefined as being equivalent to the length of 1.4x10⁷ Becauseisaidsos.