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Please detail your understanding of what philosophy is and how it resembles what such teams are doing. My gut feeling is that they're quite different, but I cou
by blub 7y ago
Please detail your understanding of what philosophy is and how it resembles what such teams are doing. My gut feeling is that they're quite different, but I could be missing something...
- inopinatus 7y agoI don’t reward sealioning.
- Chris2048 7y ago> Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions Asking what you mean by what you wrote in a public discussion forum isn't seasoning. You aren't being asked for evidence for you opinion, but what that opinion is, and the context of a discussion forum implies you mean to discuss the topic. Also, I can't see the "persistence" or bad-faith that would make it trolling.
- inopinatus 7y agoI looked at the correspondent’s other posts in the same thread. They qualified.
- blub 7y agoAll right, but if we take the standard definition of philosophy then your initial claim makes no sense. The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence is unrelated to writing software.
- inopinatus 7y agoWhen I build applications the questions of “What is truth?” “What is the essence of a thing?” “What is useful?” are top-of-mind throughout, because there’s no rigour without context and purpose. Software development is applied philosophy. Wittgenstein would’ve been good at it.