I figure this is the proper board to ask. /his/ what was the

you want cracked.com where you can get a meme list written by a 26 year old with no qualifications that badly outlines this topic in clickbaity fashion

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>>2073510

>>2073528
no I wanted /his/ opinion on notable instances of BTFO
it's okay if you don't know that /his/ somebody else will surely have an answer for me

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>Frege writes an entire book trying to provjde a foundation for formal mathematics
>Bertrand Russell responds with pic related, exposing a flaw in his most basic axioms
UTTERLY DESTROYED

Cannae

Plato was discoursing on his theory of ideas and, pointing to the cups on the table before him, said while there are many cups in the world, there is only one `idea’ of a cup, and this cupness precedes the existence of all particular cups. “I can see the cups on the table,” said Diogenes, “but I can’t see the `cupness'”. “That’s because you have the eyes to see the cup,” said Plato, “but”, tapping his head with his forefinger, “you don’t have the intellect with which to comprehend `cupness’.” Diogenes walked up to the table, examined a cup and, looking inside, asked, “Is it empty?” Plato nodded. “Where is the `emptiness’ which precedes this empty cup?” asked Diogenes. Plato allowed himself a few moments to collect his thoughts, but Diogenes reached over and, tapping Plato’s head with his finger, said “I think you will find here is the `emptiness’.

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WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THIS?

>>2073700
this was a pretty great example of what I was referring to with my OP
I am not sure it is even possible to come back from being BTFO this hard