Philosophy club hosted a meeting to debate whether or not there are more doors or wheels in this world.

It’s not like this is important, but also, this is the kind of shit we’ll remember later on down the road. The silliness. The willingness to get together and just be, for the hell of it, for the good time.

If every door has hinges, and if hinges might be considered wheels, then there will always be at least as many wheels as there are doors. If a door doesn’t necessarily need to have hinges, or if a hinge shouldn’t be considered a wheel, then we need to go back to the beginning.

We are almost unanimously team wheels. But we also took the time to think about why that might be the case. We got out a whiteboard and some markers and started defining terms and arguing over the minutia and trying to come up with counterexamples.

In the end, so much in any debate comes down to what we mean by the use of certain words. It’s sometimes helpful to slow down enough to clarify.

I think I have learned more about communication in my philosophy program than I have learned about philosophy.

I hope it’s a good night.