Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 03, 2024

Hobbes should have read something in French to really mess with Calvin.

C’mon Calvin! That’s easy! “We can apriori and prior to all given objects have a knowledge of those conditions on which alone experience of them is possible , but never of the laws to which things may in themselves be subject without reference to possible experience.”

I guess he Kant repeat everything.

Foiled again—eh, Calvin?

LMAO we can ah Peoria

Certified Kant moment

Yet another piece of evidence which supports Watterson’s claims that he didn’t see Hobbes as part of Calvin’s imagination. Hobbes was able to read aloud from a book and Calvin was unable to remember what Hobbes had just read to him.

The Leith Police Dismisseth Us…

Owned!!

Shut down.

Is that from one of Kamala Harris’ speeches? Like when she said, “It’s time to be, unburdened by what has been.”

Hobbs going all Kant on us.

And that’s how you shut down a repeater!

Takes a real wit to outwit a nitwit.

This is why I never made it through Philosophy 101.

Show of hands… Who did not read everything Hobbes read in the third panel? Besides yrs trly, The❤️Count.

Oof get reckt Calvin

HA HA Calvin, thbbpptt!!

A dirty trick but an effective one!

Trying to study Kant will make you want to bang your head on your desk until you pass out.

Ruination ruined!

When my kids did this to me, I could have started stating facts & quoting poetry. They might have learned something… like I just did.

One point for Hobbes!

Is that Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason”?

I Kant understand why he didn’t quote Hobbes.

Wouldn’t it have made more sense for Hobbes to quote “In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” written by his namesake?

Ah quoting Kant. Kant is impregnable and intentionally so. Kant is held as a high ideal in Philosophy. In fact he is just a bunch of gobbledygook that justifies subjectivism, and moral relativism. A Danger to civilization coming to fruition now.

Filibuster Hobbes, filibuster.

And now a whole new generation has learned how to spell THBBPBTT !

I want to go back to my eight-year-old self and use that on my little sister.

Good one, Hobbes!

Why does Calvin even have a philosophy book lying around?

If Calvin replied “Ditto” to everything that Hobbes said, it would also be very annoying..

For those really wanting to learn more (or just punish themselves) Google “A Priorism in Moral Epistemology”. It can be found at plato dot stanford dot edu (GoComics strips URLs from comments).

The trick to getting out of this “echo” dilemma is to use the other person’s name in the statement. (e.g. “Calvin is a jerk” and keep repeating it).

this is such a classic Hobbes thing to do

He found the loophole.

Do the term “gobbledygook” ring a bell?

Where did he even find that book? Why is it in their house?

Hobbes is a right brilliant Tiger…

Touche, Hobbes.

By the way…the words Hobbes is reading are from Problems of Kant.

Good one Hobbes! Where have you been?; I missed you.

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Why was Hobbes reading Kant? Surely something from Leviathan or some other work by Thomas Hobbes would have been more appropriate

Hobbes is claiming that empirical evidence isn’t what it’s cracked up to be in some situations.

A tongue twister could help twist Calvin’s tongue too.

Or maybe just a simple “Hi I am Calvin and I kissed Susie today because I love her.”

Sounds like some weird philosophical mumbo-jumbo.

When Peter Piper, just won’t do.

Calvin Kant compete

This was how I learned of "priori"s.