We were made into groups which had 4 people each, he made us do an exercise. A person in the group had to say anything that came in his mind and another person had to do the same thing but with a different word, we had to combine those two words and make an object which had those two words. For example, a pineapple chair! We had to draw a chair and a pineapple in one product itself. It was a very quick and fun challenge.

After this challenge, we went back in history, 55000 years ago! We talked about how civilisation came into existence and how fire and hunting for food was done. Fire was such a useful tool, it helped the civilisation in cooking food, keeping them warm during cold nights, protecting themselves from insects and predators. They learned how to make weapons and used them to hunt down animals, they improved day by day. We also talked about how we assume things, due to our past experience it is our habit to assume things and later on we might test our assumptions and if they are true, they become facts but if they aren’t, then we just erase that assumption.

We talked about ambiguity, the quality of being open to more than one interpretation. I feel that philosophers spend a lot of time and effort searching for and removing ambiguity in arguments as it can lead to incorrect conclusions and can be used deliberately conceal bad arguments. We also talked about dichotomy, a division/contrast between things. This term is used in mathematics, literature, philosophy or linguistics.