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The best thing about philosophy is you can just make an argument without appealing to authority.
by HKH2 4y ago
The best thing about philosophy is you can just make an argument without appealing to authority.
- akiselev 4y agoYou call it "appealing to authority," I call it "standing on the shoulders of giants." It's philosophy for god's sake. There is no authority [callback]. You can cherry pick which parts you believe and it doesn't make a damn bit of difference. [callback] Except if you're a theologian... which is why most philosophers take the theologian subset even less seriously than they do the existential nihilists.
- HKH2 4y agoYou say there is no authority, yet you keep appealing to it. Who cares what is in vogue in philosophy? Just respond with an argument.