An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final exam after a semester dealing with a broad array of topics.
The class was already seated & ready to go when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk & wrote on the board: "Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist."
Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in a furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair. One member of the class however, was up & finished in less than a minute.
Weeks later, when the grades were posted, the student who finished in one minute got an A.
The rest of the group wondered how he could have gotten an A when he had barely written anything at all.
This is what he wrote:
"What chair?"
The class was already seated & ready to go when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk & wrote on the board: "Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist."
Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in a furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair. One member of the class however, was up & finished in less than a minute.
Weeks later, when the grades were posted, the student who finished in one minute got an A.
The rest of the group wondered how he could have gotten an A when he had barely written anything at all.
This is what he wrote:
"What chair?"