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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

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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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We stand on the shoulders of giants in many fields, philosophy included. If you dont stand on those shoulders by reading those works, you're likely to be rehashing an argument settled / widely accepted a century ago.

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I sorta don't believe this? Like I don't need to know much about the history of literature in order to write a great novel - just exposure to the stories around me, even movies, would work.

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I think novels and philosophy are fundamentally different, unfortunately, because a novel is art and philosophy is reasoning / logic And I'm not saying you couldn't come up with a novel, important philosophical argument. And you might face insecure quotes in response...