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Just me or is philosophy actually a complete shitshow? When I was younger I really wanted to major in philosophy because I thought it was "learning to think real good about abstract stuff", but eventually found out it was "quoting other famous people's stuff at each other"

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i had to google positivism, that's how anti-philosophy i am at this point

6:22 AM · Oct 18, 2019

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I know it may seem frustrating that there are so many concepts and terms that seem opaque - but that's partly because it's complicated. Lawyers and doctors also have their own, specific vocabulary - because anything complex needs to simplify or sentences become insane.

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Right, that's the explanation, but I have an angry intuition about this I might need to write a lot more about. Commenting here so j remember for later.

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I also googled positivism so I could say "nope" with confidence. Correct statement of positions here: wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Highly_Ad

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