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{{a|confcall|}}[[Discourse on Intercourse]] is a well-intended basically wrong-headed philosophical tract formulated by delusional Austrian librettist [[Otto Büchstein]] in 1769. Outraged by [[René Descartes]] suggestion that the only indubitable thing in the universe was one's own existence as a [[res cogitans|thinking thing]], [[Büchstein]] attempted to deduce an entire | {{a|confcall|}}[[Discourse on Intercourse]] is a well-intended though basically wrong-headed philosophical tract formulated by delusional Austrian librettist [[Otto Büchstein]] in the depths of dengue fever delirium in 1769. | ||
Outraged by [[René Descartes]] suggestion that the only indubitable thing in the universe was one's own existence as a [[res cogitans|thinking thing]], [[Büchstein]] attempted to deduce an entire multi-personal [[epistemology]] from the commercial inevitability of [[business meetings]]. | |||
His logic was this: meetings must exist, since no-one in her right mind world make the idea up if she didn't need to. So, since someone ''has'' made them up, [[business meeting]]s must a necessary fact of corporate life. On that predicate, it follows that as it is an ''[[a priori]]'' fact that a meeting must comprise more than one person, there must be multiple individuals in the universe, to give effect to inevitable meetings. At least three, thought [[Büchstein]]: the meetor and the meetee, and since transparently neither of these would willingly meet without some kind of compulsion, a third person (usually a [[management consultant]] or [[project manager]]) to force the meeting to happen and assign actions and timelines at its conclusion. |