This comic makes an excellent metaphor for the Munchhausen trilemma of epistemology, with Marx playing the role of Baron Munchhausen, and Doc Chase being the truth seeker. Left with three ultimately insufficient options, all we can do is attempt to bootstrap our way through analysis for partial truth. That’s the unsavory bean. Check out the Wikipedia article on the Munchhausen trilemma for the three options and an image of the Baron yanking himself and his horse out of a swamp by pulling on his hair. Marx loves to play with the anxieties caused by the inaccessibility of absolute truth. Philosophy is fun, as long as you can draw relatively sharp lines between the serious and frivolous. Hint: the game of philosophy is best seen as a process, not a goal, though the latter is still important..
This comic makes an excellent metaphor for the Munchhausen trilemma of epistemology, with Marx playing the role of Baron Munchhausen, and Doc Chase being the truth seeker. Left with three ultimately insufficient options, all we can do is attempt to bootstrap our way through analysis for partial truth. That’s the unsavory bean. Check out the Wikipedia article on the Munchhausen trilemma for the three options and an image of the Baron yanking himself and his horse out of a swamp by pulling on his hair. Marx loves to play with the anxieties caused by the inaccessibility of absolute truth. Philosophy is fun, as long as you can draw relatively sharp lines between the serious and frivolous. Hint: the game of philosophy is best seen as a process, not a goal, though the latter is still important..