I’m spending weeks reading many subfields in analytic philosophy, defensively. All comprehensively nonsense which I’m not going to discuss, but they do treat the phenomena I’m writing about, so I feel I have to be sure I’m not missing anything important.https://twitter.com/PaperFury/status/1027666554677166080 …
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Analytic philosophy pervasively commits a characteristically rationalist error: substituting a formal abstract problem for a real world topic, generating technical problems within the abstraction, failing to solve them, and trying harder instead of questioning the formalization
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You're a better man than I. (When a field is nonsense I start skimming. Then I start skimming really fast, faster, ... done.
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This demonstrates that you are smarter than me :)
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Replying to @Meaningness @michael_nielsen
I have found a lot of analytical philosophy to be beautiful and to greatly clarify my thoughts. What area are you looking into you don't mind me asking?
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The vagueness literature at the moment.
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