[QUOTE=Tenebras]
… who went on to kill Zeno of Citium, who didn’t put up any kind of fight at all.
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That’s because Zeno’s punches never touched him. You see, in order to connect, they first had to go half the distance . . . .
[QUOTE=Diomedes]
Tycho Brahe (while an astronomer, he lived at a time when philosophy wasn’t really removed from the sciences) died from a burst bladder suffered during a drinking contest.
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Not so much a drinking contest as an excess of decorum. He was (supposedly) at a banquet (in one version of the story, the King was present) and didn’t feel it proper to get up to relieve himself.
Descartes’ death was not so much funny as ironic.
Descartes: I think, therefore I am.
Barkeep: Would you like another drink?
Descartes: I think not.