While there can be laughter without humour – tickling, embarrassment, nitrous oxide and vengeful exultation have been known to bring it forth – there cannot be humour without laughter. That, at any rate, is what contemporary philosophers think.
While there can be laughter without humour – tickling, embarrassment, nitrous oxide and vengeful exultation have been known to bring it forth – there cannot be humour without laughter. That, at any rate, is what contemporary philosophers think.