Analytic Philosophy’s Best Unintentional Self-Parodying

“Someone, let’s say a baby, is born; his parents call him by a certain name.” That line–recently circulated on social media by Eric Winsberg (South Florida / Cambridge) as “the funniest sentence in the history of philosophy”—is from Saul Kripke‘s Naming and Necessity. I’m not sure its the funniest sentence in the history of philosophy, but it is pure poetry. And it may be the best example of unintentional self-parody in the history of analytic philosophy. To be sure of that, though, we’d need to know what the other candidates for this designation might be. Your suggestions?
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