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:(ii) is ''not'' the smartest person in the room, in which case what is she doing teaching these people in the first place?
:(ii) is ''not'' the smartest person in the room, in which case what is she doing teaching these people in the first place?


It also means lavatory cubicles are just wrong, on principle.<ref>There may be an exception for those high tech self-flushing ones you find in Japan, for uncommonly dull people.</ref> likewise
It also means lavatory cubicles are just wrong, on principle.<ref>There may be an exception for those high tech self-flushing ones you find in Japan, for uncommonly dull people.</ref>
 
The epistemological chain reaction goes yet further.


I have just had an argument with my daughter about who should leave the kitchen. Eventually we agreed she should go. But, dilemma! The minute she left ''I'' became the smartest person in the kitchen, so I had to leave too. I joined her in the laundry.
I have just had an argument with my daughter about who should leave the kitchen. Eventually we agreed she should go. But, dilemma! The minute she left ''I'' became the smartest person in the kitchen, so I had to leave too. I joined her in the laundry.