A professor of philosophy stood before his class, silently waiting as the last of his students filed in and found their seats. With a number of different items on the table in front of him, he waited patiently for the last bell. He then lifted a large empty glass beaker over his head for all to see.
Like a magician showing there was nothing up his sleeve, he panned the corners of the room then placed the beaker back on the table.
He then began filling it with golf balls, …