My philosophical conversations tend to get worse proportional to the amount my conversational partner has studied philosophy
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Agreed. And if the themes from the earlier works are compelling, that will come out in the conversation.
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It's not built on a response to earlier philosophy if you've never studied earlier philosophy.
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That may be the problem; you are interested *in* philosophy, while academic philosophy is mostly *about* philosophy. I suppose it's hard to make genuine progress in philosophy without both a hard formal and a deep humanities education, so they don't have any other choice.
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It feels a lifetime to come up to speed on the philosophy library, and then to keep up, but fun random conjecturing often explores spaces that plenty of people have already elucidated in the library. As usual, practicing a balance seems to satisfy interest “in” Philosophy.
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Understanding earlier philosophy is critical to doing philosophy well. You're otherwise left inventing the wheel and you'll die well before you get far there. Name dropping and use of jargon is immature. It's the ideas that matter, not the names or fancy words.
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Reinventing the wheel and or working on faulty axioms and assumptions.
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It's easier to produce a new Chesterton fence than understand why a Chesterton fence may exist. What's worse we become unqualified to determine whether such a fence already existed and if the circumstances were the same or different.
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From an engineering perspective this means we miss an opportunity to DRY + improve existing fences or may even undermine or reduce the effectiveness of an existing necessary fence.
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This is how crackpots are born Crackpots always think they have come up with something new without knowing that someone already did it or there's a fundamental reason why it won't work because they haven't studied it enough See: Time Cube, Water powered car, C-19 Hoax etc...
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This is more true for science than for philosophy.
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