[ExI] "How to do Philosophy"

[Emlyn]

I'm finding that the URL posted in this thread doesn't work, but this does:

http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

-- 
Emlyn

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2008/7/22 Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>:
> At 07:40 PM 7/21/2008 -0400, Natasha url'd:
>
>> http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
>
> This is great stuff. E.g.:
>
> <When things are hard to understand, people who suspect they're nonsense
> generally keep quiet. There's no way to prove a text is meaningless. The
> closest you can get is to show that the official judges of some class of
> texts can't distinguish them from placebos. ... I think Wittgenstein
> deserves to be famous not for the discovery that most previous philosophy
> was a waste of time, which judging from the circumstantial evidence must
> have been made by every smart person who studied a little philosophy and
> declined to pursue it further, but for how he acted in response. >
>
> Damien Broderick
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