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You didn't make a point. You asked a loaded question. It backfired on you.

• guerrilla 7y ago
  My question asking if you value products of philosophy that have become essential to our society neither contains an unjustified assumption and thus is not a loaded question and still stands and thus has not backfired.
  • ukj 7y ago
    It was loaded. It contains an unjustified assumption that “logic, the art of making distinctions, the study of critical thinking and the foundation of mathematics" and [other?] art belong in different categories. It also takes an incomplete view on "critical thinking". Drawing distinctions is complemented by abstracting similarities. The creation of knowledge (in all its forms) is itself a form of artistic self-expression. It is essential to humans, and therefore essential to society. As a programmer my medium of self-expression is software. I am an artist as much as I am a logician and a scientist. What I do is create. It also happens to be useful to others, which is why it pays fucking well too.
    • guerrilla 7y ago
      It literally asks that as a question, posing it as the hypothesis under question.
      • ukj 7y ago
        Your question was answered before you even asked it. > It matters for people who find it valuable, the same way art, music or literature matters. Key phrase "the same way". There's nothing wrong with being wrong, yet you strike me as a person who doesn't like it.