Casey

All right I give up. Will somebody please just tell me the answer...I remember taking an I.Q. test when I was four years old to determine whether I should be tracked with the smart kids or the dumb ones for the rest of my life. This stiff-looking bearded man walked me into an empty classroom and we sat down; he started asking me questions in what I thought, even then, was a condescending manner. We put together these gently curved wooden blocks on a tray in the form of an arch. The tray tilted up and then back down, leaving the blocks teetering in their noble arch, unstable. The man put his forefinger and thumb just above the center block, the one at the top of the arch, and said, "What will happen if I take this block out?"What kind stupid question was that? "It will all fall down," I said. Apparently, that answer satisfied him. If he asked me again today, I would say, "Well, according to David Hume's analysis of the so-called 'is-ought' problem, there is no way to tell for certain what will happen. Just because the sun has come up every day... induction... etc."In other words, you'd have really liked me when I was four.