> I also carry the common scepticism caused by philosophers not getting literally anything right about the 20th-century-physics picture of the world right ahead

> I also carry the common scepticism caused by philosophers not getting literally anything right about the 20th-century-physics picture of the world right ahead of time Well, Democritus did. But nobody paid much attention. Which is the fundamental problem with philosophy - absent objective criteria of validity, it becomes a popularity contest.