Watch Woody Allen tell the following joke in a stand-up routine from his film, Annie Hall.

LRS in the Wild

See the Principle in Real Life

Exams in Metaphysics 101 do not ask you to look into your soul and examine the nature of your being, but to show that you've grasped and retained what you were taught during the semester. In this joke, Woody Allen comically juxtaposes two types of problems: practical, real-world problems like those addressed by final exams, and abstract, philosophical problems like the nature of being. When crafting an argument, it is useful to think of problems as one of these two types.