WEIGHTLESS PHILOSOPHY

        A.I. of UBC announces a contest open to all philosophers.

Background:
        NASA regularly invites amateur scientists, adults and children both, to
submit proposals for experiments to be conducted in near-earth orbiting
satellites.  The experimental materials must be capable of being stored within
a
small box or locker.

Entry Submissions:
        Should be made to A.I., Philosophy Dept., University of British
Columbia.

Entries Submitted so far:

Feld:
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1) A hedonic calculator will measure variations in the bearability of being
as correlated with gravitational flux

2) We know that the law of distribution fails for very small objects.  This
experiment tests the effects of weightlessness on modus ponens.

3) Virtual robots on an unsinkable raft test the Danielson co-operation
thesis

4) Hidden cameras record the presence, or absence, of the null set

5) We test Berkeley as follows: in a weightless vacuum a bell is struck;
does it produce the ding an sich?

6) Two Black balls are ejected into space; astronauts are challenged to
distinguish them.

7) In hard, zero-gravity vacuum we attempt to synthesize a necessary
truth.

8) Once weightlessness is achieved, the experimenters remove the
barrier separating salt-water baths containing, respectively, a space-time worm
and a space-time rock cod.

9) An  is  plate and an  ought  plate are slotted into opposite ends of the
accordion-sided box; air is progressively exhausted until nothing separates the
plates; the apparatus is then examined to discover whether a gap remains.

10) We insert into the closed, to-be-weightless box: a random-number
generator, a triggering mechanism, cyanide, and a cat.