They joke therefore they are

‘Is it getting solipsistic in here, or is it just me?’

‘This sentence contains exactly threee erors.’

Those are both from a post on philosophical humour by Gerald Dworkin. I like the observation he quotes that ‘Hegel loses a lot in the original’. There’s also a longer joke about Talmudic interpretation that I commend to your attention. And this. (Thanks: SdeW.)

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