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Try to form at least a hundred words wit INTERNATIONAL

Okay try this.
I'm something, you throw away the outer part and cook the inner part, then you eat the outer part and throw away the inner part. What am i?

@ rubrics, i dont think thats the correct answer to the dry and wet riddle. The correct answer should be towel.
@ drharry, the answer is your name.

Sorry pips, been kinda very busy so i couldn't post a reply but i guess donimali already did- she was only trying to thread a needle. See how dirty your minds are?

You know now.

I'm sorry i've not been able to continue wit the gettiers problem topic, been kinda busy. Just give me some few more hours and we'll have more posts. Still having the write-up scrutinized.

The problem wit african especially nigeria hiphoppers or rather rappers, is that they had a late start to this thing and they got influenced by wrong pple like rickross, 50, wayne etc, forgettin that these guys are really rich not that they just talk about them. Heard someone talk about OD, dont know if the guy has a new one out but the last ones i heard from that guy sounded too basic and elementary. I cant wait for these pple to one day grow up and start to do something nice.

Thanx bouz, the place i'm in right now doesn't help. The radio stations here are bullsht so the only place i get to get updates is dstv and you know if they dont have the video out yet then you cant see it. I think the breds need to come together once more, that streethop joint was hot. The top solo hiphop heads should come up wit more collabos.

@ rubrics, yours is dirtier, but that doesn't answer my question. Try harder.
@ madea, coughing or coffin?

if you however have any question on african philosophy buggling your mind, be assured you can get answers to them detailedly here.

Oluschenco, getting african philosophy textbooks depends on your present location. There's a vast array of texts by both african and non-african scholars i can recommend for you. But if you're somewhere close to where i'm, i can get you some myself. Right now i'm in ado. You can also visit libraries to find books by bodunrin etal. You can also be on the look out for journals by philosophy departments of various universities, they're always rich.

GETTIER'S PROBLEM (DEGETTIERISING KNOWLEDGE)
we start our long journey of discussing philosophy wit epistemology, one of the core areas of the course. Epistemology deals wit the nature, sources and limits of knowledge. It is primarily concerned wit propositional knowledge- that is knowledge that such (and such is true), rather than other forms of knowledge. Propositional knowledge has always been held as 'justified true belief' (JTB), our aim here is to look at the implication of maintaining this stance.
There is a vast array of views about propositional knowledge, but one virtually universal presupposition is that knowledge is true belief but not mere true belief. For example, lucky guesses or true belief resulting from wishful thinkin are not knowledge. Thus a central question in epistemology is what must be added to true belief to convert them into knowledge.
The historically dominant tradition in epistemology answers that question by claiming that it is the quality of the reasons of our beliefs that converts true belief to knowledge. When the reasons are sufficiently cogent, we have knowledge. This is the normative tradition in epistemology. Just as an action is justified when ethical principles or sanctions are holding it: in an analogy with the normative tradition in ethics.
The second tradition in epistemology, the naturalistic, does not focus on the quality of the reasons for beliefs but rather, requires that the conditioni in which the beliefs are acquired typically produce true beliefs.
Within the normative tradition, two views about the proper structure of reasons have been developed: foundationalism and coherentism. By far, the most commonly held view is foundationalism. It holds that reasons rest on a foundational structure comprised of basic beliefs. The foundational proposition have autonomous justification that does not depend upon any further justification which could be provided by inferential relations to other propositions.
These basic beliefs exhibit knowledge initially gained through the senses or introspection.
Since not all knowledge seems to be based on sense experience or rational intuition, some epistemologist claim that some knowledge is innate, still others argue that some propositions are basic in virtue of conversational features.
Foundationalist hold that epistemic principles of inference are available that allow an epistemic agent to reason from basic to non-basic propositions. They suggest, for example that if a set of basic propositions is explained by some hypothesis and additional confirming evidence for the hypothesis is discovered, then the hypothesis is justified. A notorious problem with this suggestion is that it is always possible to form more than one hypothesis that appear equally well confirmed by total available data, and consequently no one hypothesis seems favored over all its rivals. Some epistemologists have argued that this problem can be overcome by appealing to features of the rival hypothesis beyond their explanatory power: for example the relative simplicity of one hypothesis might be thought to provide a basis for prefering it to all its rivals.
In contrast to foundationalism, coherentism claims that every belief derives its justification from inferential relationship to other beliefs. Some however assign a special justificatory role to those propositions that are more difficult to dislodge from the web of belief. The set of these propositioni overlaps the set of basic propositions specified by foundationalism.

Oh God!!! I'm smelling you guys. Phew! I thought we were done for when back in 07 i saw kolomental won the award for best hiphop and gongo aso this year clinched the same award category at mamas. I took it solely upon myself and my non- understanding, fans of jargons friends laughed at me. Had i been at the award, i'd done a kanye. I must confess i started having hope in Naija music after the likes mode, MI, blaise etc came aboard. I hope we continue to encourage these heads so they fizzle out. I wonder where thoroughbreds are now. I can only find ill'blis.

I called a friend yesterday looking for help on some logical problems cos i thought i could trust him to give me some suggestions being one of the best in that field but was surprised at the reply i got. He said the last time he opened a book was three months ago. I thought to myself, this was going to be the lot of many nigerian students who feels what should he or she be reading for, so i brought this thread up. At least if we cant read it, we can talk- i mean share the ones we used to have thereby gaining more. Although this thread is strictly going to discuss core philosophical issues, interested non-philosophy student can post reply. Please feel free to ask any question and you can expect prompt responses from me. Also if you dont feel satisfied wit my view, you can bring yours. That's why its philosophy. Core areas of attention will include the four main branches of philosophy- logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Logic especially is going to have more attention cos that's one of the greatest problems students of philosophy have. Looking forward to meeting the great thinkers. Those who think about thinking.

Yeah people,the post ume's been postponed indefinitely but nasu had a meeting yesterday and my uncle who went to the meeting didn't come back home until 10pm so i wasn't able to ask him what's up. Let you know the outcome of the meeting later this morning.

Greatest nigeria students. Its good to see us finally speakin up and ventin our agitations but doin it here does little help. I see a good number of us are behind ASUU but how are we showing it. There was a protest mounted by lecturers last week in ibadan and it was disheartenin not to find students followin them en-mass. Though i wanted to but unable to cos i dont know much places in that city. I also expected us to show our anger before the nigeria- tunisia match, maybe with placards or chants but we do?- blame those superbly super eagles who happen to be the only sector in nigeria now that is not losin. At least they drew instead of lose. Lol.

Okay pips try this.
To make it straight, she pulled it. To make it stand, she rubbed it. To make it stiff, she licked it and to let it in, she pushed it. What was she doing?

At odi, first you take goat across, leave it at the other end, come back for the vegetable, and after you've dropped it at the other end, you leave it there but take the goat along wit you back to your startin point. Leave it there and go across wit the lion and leave it at the other end wit the veg. Go back for your goat and you're done.

I think a lotta pple gettin this thin wrong. Guys, pls draw the line btw a greatest rappers, good rappers, and favourite rappers. Where you guys wanna put run-dmc, public enemy, okay tupac but big, i think he should be on the good list. What's all this fuss bout 50, jay, etc, these guys are favorites. If any of the millenium rappers appear, i think it should be shady. This is a list of all times not 1990s and 2000s. Ya'll better start re-shuffling your list.

Shepe's in the system. Crazy.

Hey guys. Dont forget kanye was in Naija and its not possible for any outsider to take the Naija brand of white paper bush and not misbehave. Anyways, this guy's apologised, he's human. You know sometimes even among us, when we go for award shows during our secondary or university days we feel some pple deserve an award rather than others and we feel like burstin up.