Is it or Isn't It?

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The Oxhill News February 2005
Oxhill This months News January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005	Contents Starts with Feb March Issue Cover Picture Xmas Puddings Oil Cooperative Service Times Thank You Festival Choir Church Flowers Nature Notes Tsunami Appeal Parish Council PCC Meeting WI Report Village Hall Victor Bench Garden Club Revd D Jephson Well Done 25 Years Ago Car for Sale Is it or Isn't It? Charity Begins ... Excitement [ Back ] [ Next ]	Is It or Isn't It? At dinner the other evening we were discussing, as you do, the Berkleyan idea that things only exist when they have an observer. It's a little like the question of whether a falling tree makes a sound when there is no-one in the forest to hear it. Monsignor Ronald Knox put it like this: There once was a man who said "God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there's no-one about in the Quad." The response, from that well-known author Anon, came swiftly: "Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd; I am always about in the Quad; And that's why the tree Will continue to be. It's observed by, Yours Faithfully, God." Editor
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