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> a lot of philosophy is actually bullshit > How would you expect me to defend it? It's my opinion One of the first useful things that philosophy teaches you
by tremon 2mo ago
> a lot of philosophy is actually bullshit
> How would you expect me to defend it? It's my opinion
One of the first useful things that philosophy teaches you is how to construct a well-rounded argument in support of any position. Following up "philosophy is useless" with "I don't know how to argue my own opinion" demonstrates quite a lack of awareness.
- lisper 2mo agoApparently they don't teach you about straw-man arguments. I didn't say philosophy was useless, I said a lot of philosophy is bullshit. That is not the same thing. A lot of physics nowadays is bullshit (like string theory) but that is not to say that physics is useless.