英文寓言故事：一次非常规测试 你会用哲学的思维看待问题么？

Unusual Test

一次非常规测试

Once a philosophy professor gave an unusual test to his class. He lifted his chair up and kept it on his table.

曾经有一位哲学教授为他的学生们做了一个测试。 他抬起一把椅子放在桌子上。

Now he turned toward board and wrote, “Prove that this chair does not exist.”

现在他转向黑板写下要求：“证明这把椅子不存在。”

Whole class was surprised and confused yet all students started writing long complex explanations.

全班学生都感到惊讶和困惑，但却都开始写下长篇大论又复杂的解释。

Among all there was one student who completed that test in a minute and handed paper to professor, attracting surprised glances from his classmates and the professor.

但有一位学生在一分钟内完成了测试，并将答卷交给教授，同学们和教授不禁侧目。

Some days later class received their grades for the test and student who took just a minute to complete the test was announced the best answer.

几天后 ， 同学们拿到了成绩，那个一分钟就交出答卷的学生的答案是最佳的。

His answer was, “What chair?”

他写的是：哪有什么椅子啊？

Moral:

We tend to Think a lot. Sometimes Answers are just simple.

本文寓意：

我们总倾向于把简单的问题复杂化。

这位同学的思考显然是出于一种哲学的思维，不能按常理出牌，大部分同学循规蹈矩试图用常理来解释，但实际上怎么都不可能解释通的。椅子不论放在那里始终是存在的。

而老师的用意也在于考察学生是否有在用哲学的思维。这位同学正中老师下怀，我没有看见它自然它就不存在了呗，还需要证明什么？

看似有些唯心主义的说法，实则是哲学思想发光的结果。

同时在我们遇事爱钻牛角尖的时候，不妨换个思路也许就“柳暗花明又一村”了。

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