Shmuel’s Philosophy Exam

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Shmuel Shuster went straight from many years of Yeshiva into college. His parents were concerned that he might not have the necessary background in the humanities but he was confident. He came to class at the end of the semester for his philosophy final exam where the students had all prepared from their vast array of assignments and readings.

Their eccentric professor gave a one-question final exam. He picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk, and wrote on the board: "Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist."

Fingers flew, erasers erased, and notebooks were filled in furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair. Shmuel, however, was up and finished in less than a minute.

Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the group wondered Shmuel could have gotten an "A" when he had barely written anything at all. They asked Shmuel what his answer consisted of and he responded that it only contained two words:

"What chair?"

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