[ExI] "How to do Philosophy"

[Natasha Vita-More]

http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html works fine.  



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> I'm finding that the URL posted in this thread doesn't work, but this
does:
> 
> http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
> 
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> Emlyn
> 
> http://emlynoregan.com
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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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