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My philosophical conversations tend to get worse proportional to the amount my conversational partner has studied philosophy

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Do you mean studied formally or are you including self-study?

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Studied formally usually.

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Why do you think that’s the case?

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Not sure. I think likely academic study of philosophy is outright bad and fails to teach people how to think. They are bad at writing, bad at communicating, bad at having original thoughts. Fantastic at quoting famous dead people though!

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So formal study of philosophy discourages original thought. What commonalities, if any, do you find to be positively correlated with original thought?

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I don't know! High iq, good self reflection, freedom/unusual self-oriented pursuits maybe?

6:50 AM · Dec 25, 2020

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So the conversation isn't as much as exploring ideas as it is pattern matching your thoughts to a dead philosopher and shutting down inquiry by putting everything into a box as quickly as possible?

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