If not too socially awkward, do you have a sense of where LW’ers get stuck on real-world problems? Speaking extremely generally, where “they” are not “rigid” (to my mind) their Qs & As for many real-world topics seem very good. “Explicit abstract contradictions” seems wrong crit.
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I sort of think of Meaningness as being meta to philosophy in the same way that meditation is meta to the contents of thought. Saying it's not philosophy is like saying meditation is not thinking. The object-level philosophy is invoked to explain meta-level pattern and nebulosity
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Gonna side with my boy Jeremy here, for any folk understanding of philosophy (the study of general and fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language - straight from wikipedia), meaningness (discourse on meaning) def. seems to fall under it
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Sure. But I think rejecting all of philosophy as 'bunk' is clearly wrong, unnecessary, over-arrogant
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I think you are mistaking my illocutionary intent here. It is not to make a fact claim but to redirect cognitive attention.
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